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Lidster, G F



George Frederick Lidster

Driver George Frederick Lidster
Army Service Corps (later North Staffs Rgt)


1914-15 Star

Served in Salonika

Son of George A & Ann Jane Lidster of High Street, St Anne, Alderney. Brother of Harold Brierley, Norman Wilfred & Sydney Audoire Lidster. During the war the family moved from Alderney to Sheffield, which was George Arthur, their father's birthplace. He had been garrisoned in Guernsey and Alderney with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and married Ann Jane Audoire on 30/04/1893. Her father was Peter Gaudion Audoire and her mother Jane Gale from Jersey


George is on the left

 

Born at Pontefract in 1894. Son of George A & Ann Jane Lidster of High Street, St Anne, Alderney


George is on the right

"The 'Audoires of Alderney' in your Families at War section, shows the four boys. They missed the 'd' out of the surname in the caption but I forgive the reporter. I had no idea this existed."

James Lidster

Courtesy of James Lidster (son of Norman Lidster)