Background
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.
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Sydney Liversedge
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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 Number. 70 Squadron Reconstruction Finance Corporation, flying the Sopwith Camel, in March 1918, which on 1 April, following the merging of the Army"s Royal Flying Corps (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) and the Royal Naval Air Service (Royal Naval Air Service) to form the Royal Air Force became Number.
70 Squadron Royal Air Force. 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 Royal Air Force"s unemployed list in January 1919. He died in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1979.
