Bill Liardet | |
Nickname: | "Bill" |
Birth Name: | Henry Maughan Liardet |
Birth Date: | 27 October 1906 |
Birth Place: | Birkenhead, Cheshire, England |
Death Place: | Arundel, West Sussex, England |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Branch: | British Army |
Serviceyears: | 1924–1964 |
Servicenumber: | 31303 |
Rank: | Major-General |
Unit: | Royal Artillery Royal Tank Regiment |
Commands: | 23rd Armoured Brigade (1953–54) 8th Royal Tank Regiment (1949–50) 25th Armoured Engineer Brigade Royal Engineers (1945) 1st Armoured Replacement Group (1944) 6th Royal Tank Regiment (1942–44) |
Battles: | Second World War Palestine Emergency |
Awards: | Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches (2) |
Relations: | Sir Claude Liardet (father) |
Major-General Henry Maughan "Bill" Liardet (27 October 1906 – 8 February 1996) was a senior British Army officer.
The son of a British Army officer, Captain Claude Liardet, "Bill" Liardet was born in Birkenhead, England on 27 October 1906. Like his father, Liardet was initially educated at Bedford School, Liardet was commissioned into the Royal Artillery, Royal Tank Corps in 1927, serving in India and Egypt between 1927 and 1938.[1] In 1939, the year the Second World War began, Liardet was in England attending the Staff College, Camberley, which graduated early due to the war's beginning in September.
Liardet retired from the army in 1964. He died in 1996 at the age of 89.[2]