Name
Sidney Alfred Wilshere (poss Wilshire)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23460
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin St Faith’s Church Memorial, Walsworth
Pre War
Son of William J. and Ada Emma Wilshere, of 9, St. Michael's Mount, Hitchin, Herts.
He had been born in Walsworth and volunteered in Hitchin in January 1916.
Wartime Service
Sidney was initially in the Bedfordshire Regiment with the Regimental Number 25195. Later he was transferred to the 9th (Service) Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment with the Number 23460. This Battalion was in the 74th Brigade of the 25th Division of II Corps in the Reserve Army. He went to France in April 1916 and was killed in action on the Somme.
His death coincides with the Battle of Pozieres and his unit had been at Ovillers on the 28th August 1916 in the Somme Sector. The ground was covered by enormous shell-holes and there was not a single landmark for miles.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Pier/Face 11A of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, Cilla Dyson David C Baines, Jonty Wild
