Name
Sidney William Hammond
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/08/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27014
Somerset Light Infantry
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XVIII. D. 13
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Christchurch Plaque, now in Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Kings Langley memorials
Pre War
Born in 1879, in Kings Langley, Herts, to parents William and Catherine he had one brother Alexander and three sisters Fanny, Rosa and Hilda. In 1881 they were living in High Street Green, Hemel Hempstead and in 1891 they had moved to Beaconsfield Terrace, Hatfield and his father was a police constable.
By 1901 Sidney was living as a boarder in New Town Road, Bishop’s Stortford and he was a carpenter. He married Ella Annie Wells in 1903, in Hertford and was living at 23 George Street in 1911 with his wife and daughter Winifred, 5 years old.
Wartime Service
Formerly Herts Regt, 7210.
Somerset Light Infantry was formed in August 1914 and went to France in May 1915 as part of the 14th (Light Division) and served on the Western Front throughout the war. Beginning at the battle for Hooge where they became the first British division to be attacked by flamethrowers. In 1916 they fought at the Somme from 1st July at Delville Wood and Flers-Courcelette.
The following year they took part in the 3rd Battle of Ypres where Sydney was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Terry & Glenis Collins
