Name
Wilfred Walter Sydee
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/05/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
47943
Lancashire Fusiliers
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
VIII. O. 28.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1895 in St. Pancras, London son of Walter and Sarah Elizabeth (Waite) Sydee and living in 11 Boulogne Road, Croydon in 1901 and in 11 Johnson Road, Croydon in 1911 as a gas fitter’s apprentice and latterly at 22 Tamworth Road, Hertford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Bedford formerly 6219, Middlesex Regiment and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Listed as William Walter Sydee on the memorials.
Walter is also commemorated on the family headstone in Hertford Corporation Cemetery. Their inscription reads:
ALSO HIS ELDEST SON WILFRED WALTER. KILLED IN FRANCE MAY 25TH 1918. AGED 23.
Walter's brother, Leonard Alfred Sydee, who died in the Second World War, is also listed.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
