action near Rotenburg an der Wümme in Germany (a town near Scheeßel) on 21 April 1945. He was shot by a sniper whose bullet killed another officer, going through his head and then into Liddell. The Medal His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Guards Regimental Headquarters (Coldstream Guards RHQ), Wellington Barracks, London, England. Family Liddell's grandfather, Sir Charles Oswald Liddell, was the owner of Shirenewton Hall, near Chepstow, Monmouthshire. In January 1945 in Kensington, London, he married Patricia Mary Patton-Bethune, daughter of Charlie Lionel Patton-Bethune MC (1882-1957) and his wife Mary Monica Lester (1881-1968). At the time she was a Section Officer in the WAAF and it was she who received her husband's VC from King George VI in a special investiture for next of kin held at Buckingham Palace on 12 February 1946. References Sources British VCs of World War 2 (John Laffin, 1997) Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997) 1919 births 1945 deaths Burials in Germany People from Shanghai King's Shropshire Light Infantry soldiers Coldstream Guards officers British Army personnel killed in World War II British World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross People educated at Harrow School British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross