Herts at War - a community led project to commemorate the diverse experiences of Hertfordshire during the First World War.

Name

Sydney Thirkell (Harding) Innes

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

17/10/1918
43

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
18540
South African Infantry Regiment
1st Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

ORS BRITISH CEMETERY
B.7
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Royston Town War Memorial,
Not on the Hitchin memorials*1

Pre War

Son of George Harding and Mary Innes, of Royston, Herts, England.

Additional Information

(Served as HARDING). Originally buried in Grave B.20 at the Chateau Seydoux British Cemetery. His body was exhumed in April 1923 and re-buried at Ors British Cemetery.

Sidney is also commemorated on a family headstone in Hitchin Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:

ALSO OD SIDNEY THIRKELL INNES
1ST S. A. INFANTRY, 3RD SON OF THE ABOVE,
KILLED IN ACTION AT LE CATEAU

OCT. 17TH 1918, IN HIS 44TH YEAR.

Acknowledgments

Paul Johnson