Sydney Liversedge

Captain Sydney Tyndall Liversedge (15 August 1897 – 1979) was an English World War I flying ace credited with 13 aerial victories.

Biography Liversedge was born in Honley, Kirklees, Yorkshire, the son of James Arthur Liversedge and Ethelinda (née Hirst). His father was a cashier at a woollen mill.

On 19 July 1917 he was commissioned from cadet to temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on the General List of the Royal Flying Corps, and was appointed a flying officer and confirmed in his rank on 31 August.

Liversedge was posted to No. 70 Squadron RFC, flying the Sopwith Camel, in March 1918, which on 1 April, following the merging of the Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) to form the Royal Air Force became No. 70 Squadron RAF. Between 6 April and 9 October, during which, on 6 September, he was promoted to acting captain, he claimed victories over 13 German aircraft. He was transferred to the RAF's unemployed list in January 1919. After the war, he worked as a mechanical engineer before he died in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1979.

+List of aerial victories No.Date/timeAircraftFoeResultLocationNotes 1 6 April 1918@ 1545 Sopwith Camels/n C8220 Albatros C Driven down out of control Bray Shared with Captain Harry Robinson 2 15 May 1918@ 0730 Sopwith Camels/n C8266 Pfalz D.III Driven down out of control Achiet-le-Petit Shared with Lieutenant G. C. Morris 3 27 May 1918@ 1155 Sopwith Camels/n C1602 LVG C Set on fire & destroyed Ribemont 4 27 June 1918@ 2030 Sopwith Camels/n C8268 Albatros D.V Driven down out of control East of Albert 5 @ 2040 Pfalz D.III Driven down out of control 6 1 July 1918@ 0920 Sopwith Camels/n C8237 Albatros D.V Driven down out of control Bray 7 14 July 1918@ 0700 Sopwith Camels/n C8268 Albatros C Destroyed East of Bailleul 8 29 July 1918@ 1915 Sopwith Camels/n C8265 Fokker D.VII Driven down out of control East of Armentières 9 2 August 1918@ 0710 Sopwith Camels/n C8268 Albatros C Destroyed South of Armentières 10 3 September 1918@ 0910 Sopwith Camels/n E7167 Fokker D.VII Destroyed South of Roulers 11 15 September 1918@ 1815 Sopwith Camels/n E7167 Fokker D.VII Driven down out of control Houthoulst 12 9 October 1918@ 0930 Sopwith Camels/n E7161 LVG C Destroyed Inglemunster 13 @ 0945 Fokker D.VII Captured West of Mayerneine Shared with Lieutenants Oscar Heron, E. A. Copp,A. Webster & Kenneth Watson