page_title: John Aidan Liddell
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: John Aidan Liddell / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque to Captain John Aidan Liddell, Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling
context_page_description: John Aidan Liddell, VC, MC was a British military pilot and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
context_section_description: After having his leg removed and septic poisoning setting in, Liddell died of his wounds a month later at De Panne, Flanders, Belgium, on 31 August 1915, aged 27. He is buried in The Holy Ghost Cemetery in Basingstoke with his sister Dorothy Liddell who went out to serve in the hospital where he died for the remainder of the war.
  A brass "In Memoriam" tablet was erected to Aidan Liddell in the Scottish Naval and Military Residence, Edinburgh. The inscription on the brass tablet runs as follows:
  A memorial to him was also erected at Balliol College, on the west wall of the Chapel passage. His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London.
  A plaque also exists in the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling, close to Stirling Castle, home of his regiment.
  On 29 August 2017 a memorial was unveiled outside the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, where Liddell and Privates Edward Lawson and Adam Wakenshaw are commemorated.
caption: Plaque to Captain John Aidan Liddell, Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling
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