Name
Sidney Walker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/08/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
S/6517
Rifle Brigade
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Y FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BOIS-GRENIER
Row M, Grave 41.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St John the Evangelist Church Memorial, Watford,
Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
Son of Sarah (nee DWIGHT) WALKER of Watford and the late John WALKER.
His parents married 1880 in the Berkhamsted, Herts, district. John died either 1897 in the Aylesbury, Bucks, district aged 39 or 1898 in the Wycombe, Bucks, district aged 50; Sarah died 1953 in the St Alban’s, Herts, district aged 94.
Sidney was born 9 June 1893 in Buckland, Bucks, and attended Victoria School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 8 January to 7 June 1907. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Buckland, with his widowed mother and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a shop and house lad aged 17, he lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Deptford, Kent; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 18 May 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Sidney’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is an article about Sidney in the Watford Illustrated dated 2 October 1915.
Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War.
Not listed in the CWGC records or in Soldiers Died in the Great War
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk), Jonty Wild
