Name
Sidney Brian Rumsey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/04/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
50692
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
17th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 31 to 34 and 162 and 162A and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield - Dagmar House School, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Son of Mrs. Ellen G. Williams, of "Pleasant View," Southgate Rd., Potter's Bar, Middx., and the late Mr. W. Williams..
Wartime Service
Sidney arrived in France on 6th July 1916.
Sidney was one of 120 men transferred as reinforcements to the 17th Battalion of the King's Liverpool Regiment on 24th July 1917. On the 18th of October 1917 he was wounded in action (sw face and back) and admitted to the 96 Field Ambulance and then no. 2 Casualty Clearing Station (18/7/1917), 56 General hospital(?) (19/10/1917), 6 Convalescent Depot (24/10/1917). He re-joined his Battalion 3rd January 1918.
He was granted leave between the 16th and 30th Match 1918 and a month later (30/4/1918) was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Alan Kenny