George Liddell, 3rd Officer, died as the result of an accident serving with the Merchant Navy on 02/01/1940 in Norfolk USA.

Acknowledgements: Barney Rice

The Shield Daily News 03/01/1940 reports:-
WHITLEY ENGINEER KILLED
Owners of British steamer Bancrest. have received cable from master of vessel in which it is stated George Liddell, (27) of 23 Clittonville Gardens, Whitley Bay, second engineer. has been accidentally kited at Norfolk. America. Liddell, it is believed. has one relative–his mother, who lives at the same address.

The Newcastle Journal 06/01/1940 reports with a photograph:-
SENSE OF DUTY LED TO DEATH WHITLEY MAN LEFT OFFICE FOR SEA BECAUSE he thought he could serve his country better at sea than at an office desk
A Whitley Bay man joined the Merchant Service after the outbreak of war. On Wednesday a seamen’s missioner had the sad task of informing his widowed mother, with whom he lived, that he had been fatally Injured while his ship lay at a foreign port. The man was George Liddell (27). of 23, Cliftonville Gardens, and the ship on which he was serving was the steamer Bancrest. Apart from the brief message stating that Liddell was dead and that a letter from the ship’s owners would follow, his relatives know nothing of the circumstances of his death. He took his second officer’s ticket several years ago, a brother says. Then later he obtained work with the Shipping Federation at various ports. In war conditions he considered he would be more useful at sea and he signed on with the Bancrest. But for his determination to get back to sea when war broke out he would have been alive now. Liddell was the youngest son of the family and was unmarried.

There is no CWGC entry for Third Officer Liddell

George Liddell is remembered at Monkseaton on M15.02 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.