THE COVENANTER
gun post single handed and liquidated it where he became a leading figure with local
with grenades thereby enabling his men to youth
proceed. In doing so he was wounded in clubs, In 1955, his family grew with the
the left eye but insisted on carrying on to addition of a daughter to add to his two
the isolated platoon, which he reorganised. boys. His war wounds. brought early
Wearing gym shoes, so as not to alert the retirement, and farming the family estate at
Germans next door, he reported back to his Shirenewton which he inherited from his
CO, but refused to be evacuated for twelve father in 1968. His Friesian herd of cattle
hours until he won many national championships and
was satisfied his men were in an adequate prizes, notably the Supreme Champion at
defensive position and had been fed. the London Dairy Show.
On return to his battalion from hospital War wounds led him to decline the invitation
Liddell found the battalion, just six houses to become High Sheriff of Monmouth
up the village consisting of only five officers having been “pricked” by the Queen and
and twenty-seven men, his own company a second retirement to Dorset at Manston
scarcely existed. On his 27th birthday, and then Swanage with fishing in Scotland.
whilst sheltering in a cow shed a shell fell The turmoil at Lloyd’s in the early nineties
amongst his party killing three and severely also took its toll. David Liddell married Joan
wounding Liddell. He returned to hospital Russell in 1942. She played squash racquets
in Barletta and was repatriated home thus for England and represented Hampshire at
ending his active war service. After a year lawn tennis. She predeceased him in 2004.”
of rehabilitation, during which pieces of He is survived by two sons, a daughter and
shrapnel were removed, Liddell was posted five grandchildren, to whom we send our
to a training camp in Scotland where sincere condolences.
recruits for the war against Japan were being
trained and ex-prisoners of war from the 5lst Mrs. Patricia (Pat) Mary Sutherland
Highland Division were rehabilitated. It is with great sadness that we report the
His younger brother Ian, serving with the death of Pat Sutherland who died peacefully
5th Battalion Coldstream Guards, won at her home on 6th May aged 97 years. She
the VC capturing a bridge over the river Ems was the dearest wife of the late Lt Col WH
near Lingen in Germany on the 3rd April (Jock) Sutherland The Cameronians (Scottish
1945 and killed in action two weeks later. Rifles) and was greatly loved by her family
David Liddell, the eldest son of five children and friends. We send our sincere condolences
born to a well-known family of China to her daughters, Jill and Joanna, her son in
merchants, Liddell Brothers founded by his law John, her grandchildren William, John
grandfather, was born on 9th January 1917 and Rachel and her great grandchildren
in Hankow. The family moved to Shanghai Alexander, Liberty and Phoebe
where he attended his first school in the
company of Margot Fonteyn and Mary
Hayley Bell, who was to marry John Mills, the
film star. Aged eight he returned to England
and school at St Andrews, Eastbourne where
he was later to be a Governor, and then
Harrow where he excelled in all sports and
represented the school in boxing. He also led
the school orchestra and on occasion played
under the direction of Sir Thomas Beecham.
Summer holidays were spent in Vancouver
Island where his family from China met
half way. The young Liddell, escorted by
his godmother, travelled from Liverpool to
Quebec by Canadian Pacific liner followed
by a three day train journey to Vancouver.
After the war Liddell returned to insurance
Brokers, Chandler Hargreaves Whittall,
becoming a member of Lloyd’s and a partner
in the firm, eventually becoming Chairman
and Managing Director. Now married with
two children he set up home in Beaconsfield
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