Name
Sidney Lionel Orsman
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/05/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
327594
Cambridgeshire Regiment
1st/1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY
VI. K. 13.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
LOVED BY ALL
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Sidney
Lionel Orsman was born in 1888 in Bishops Stortford to Morris James and Abigail
Orsman. On the 1901 Census he was living with his family in Middle Row, Bishops
Stortford, age 13, and working as a house errand boy. His father was a saddler. On the 1910
Electoral Register Sidney is shown to be living at 30 Sherriff Road, Kilburn
and sharing a room with Ernest Tyler. Their landlady is Mary Anne Odgers. By
the 1911 Census he was a boarder with the Odgers family living at 200a West End
Lane, London NW and working as a stationer's assistant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hampstead, Middlesex and served with the 1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment. In April and May 1917 they were positioned in and around Ypres.
Additional Information
On some records the surname Orsman is mis-transcribed as Ossman or Onsman and on the 1911 Census, the mis-transcription gives him the name of the family he is boarding with, i.e. Odgers, even though the original is very clear. His father Morris received a war gratuity of £4 10s and pay owing of £5 9s 6d. His father, Mr M J Orsman, 54 Middle Row, Bishop's Stortford ordered his headstone's inscription: "LOVED BY ALL".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
