Edward George Downing Liveing

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1901 English census; Living as son (aged 6) at 54 Hyde St/Rd(?), St Bartholomew Hyde, Hampshire with parents, 3 siblings and 3 servants. PoB Romsey, Hants - then found birth record on IGI.

1911 Census (from Wendy); All the Liveings at The Vicarage, Hyde, Winchester - Edward G D Liveing aged 16 is crossed out with the word omit - but I can't find him elsewhere?

Presumably the author of Edward G. D. Liveing's Attack: An Infantry Subaltern's Impressions of July 1st, 1916 (Macmillan, 1918), reference the Battle of the Somme, excerpt of which is here; http://sourcebook.fsc.edu/history/attack.html
It is "An account of 1st July 1916 by a subaltern in the 12th (Rangers) Battalion, London Regiment, who was wounded on that day. His unit was in 56 (London) Division and their objective was Gommecourt, north of the main battle zone. "
The book is dedicated to "The NCO's and men of No.5 Platoon of a Battalion of the County of London Regiment, whom I had the good fortune to command in France during 1915-16, and in particular to the memory of Rfn.C.N.Dennison my Platoon Observer, who fell in action July 1st, 1916 in an attempt to save my life".

Further info (DoB and DoD and wife) from http://home.st.net.au/~susanp/dat99.html#11

Also author of;
Across The Congo (1962)
Adventure In Publishing, The House of Ward Lock (1954)
A Century of Insurance; The Commerical Union Assurance Group 1861-1961 (1961)
Pioneers of petrol; a centenary history of Carless, Capel and Leonard, 1859-1959

7 pictures of him in the NPG
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?LinkID=mp72219&rNo=0&role=sit
Where he is described as 'Author and Historian'.

London Gazette 3 June 1915; 12th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (The Rangers); Cadet Edward George Downing Liveing, from the Oxford University Contingent, Senior Division, Offiers Training Corps, to be Second Lieutenant.

London Gazette 12 Dec 1919; The undermentioned relinquish their appts; Lt. E.D.G. Liveing, 12th Lond. R., T.F. 13th Feb 1919.

London Gazette 3 March 1922; TA Reserve; Capt.(Provl.) E.G.D. Liveing, from 12th Bn., Lond.R., to be Lt., 4 Mar 1922.

Bradfield College Register; Liveing Edward George Downing. b Mar 1895; a. Sept. 1909; l. Jul 1912; St Johns Coll. Oxon; Exhr., 1914; BA 1920; MA 1925; 2nd Lieut 12th Lon. Regt., served in France, Palestine, Egypt. Capt., North Regional Director BBC.

More here inc photo; http://www.thekingscandlesticks.com/webs/pedigrees/457.html

Edward married Gladys Constance Baker in 1923. (Gladys Constance Baker died in 1959.)