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MEMORIES
AND INFORMATION - WORCESTERSHIRE
Lt.-Col. F. H. LIDDELL, M.C. 1st SHROPSHIRE BATTALION and the
SHREWSBURY
TATTOO - 19th August 1944
The story of much of Lt.-Col. Frank Liddell's Home
Guard service as C.O. of the 1st Shropshire Battalion
is told on
an associated page of this website, as is
that of his
Great War service.
Frank Liddell’s creative and
organisational abilities were not restricted to
Battalion operations alone. In his papers survive records of the Tattoo
which was held in The Quarry at Shrewsbury on
Saturday, August 19th, 1944 in aid of the Shrewsbury
Red Cross Appeal. He is shown in the programme as
Tattoo Director and from his surviving papers we can
see detailed instructions for the event.
And this is how the local press saw the
outcome in a report which appeared a day or two
later:
In Memory of
Lt.-Col. Frank H.
Liddell
and all his comrades in the
1st Shropshire Battalion
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Staffshomeguard is
most grateful to Mandy Peat, Col. Liddell's
grand-daughter, for generously passing on
images and information about her grandfather
and permitting their publication in this
website.
FURTHER
INFORMATION Further information about the
Home Guard in Shrewsbury is contained
elsewhere in various parts of this website. To view the
Shropshire summary page, please use the
Shropshire Page link below. And if you
can add anything to the history of the
Shropshire Home
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