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Lidster, S A



Sydney Audoire Lidster

Corporal Sydney Audoire Lidster
West Yorkshire Regiment

Born in England in 1890. Died at Jersey. Son of George A & Ann Jane Lidster of High Street, St Anne, Alderney. Brother of George Frederick, 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

 

"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)