Name
Sidney Arthur Markwell
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/11/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5662
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
V. E. 39.
France
Headstone Inscription
AT REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Sidney Arthur Markwell was born in 1898 in Bishops Stortford to Henry and Maud Markwell.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Trinity Street, Bishop's Stortford where his father was a house decorator.
They were still in Trinity Street, Bishop's Stortford living at no. 22 in 1911.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hertford and served with the Hertfordshire Regiment.
He died of wounds received during the Battle of the Somme, probably at the 2nd or 44th Casualty Clearing Stations which were at Puchevillers at the time.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 10s and his father received pay owing of £4 14s 2d. His father Henry received a pension of 5 shillings a week from 6 November 1918. H A Markwell Esq, 22 Trinity Street, Bishop' s Stortford, Herts
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
