Name
Sidney Parcell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/02/1919
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
45637
Training Reserve
81st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HERTFORD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
SW Corner
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bengeo War Memorial Plaque, Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo
Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Born in 1894, in Hertford, to parents William and Susan he had one brother Reginald and in 1911 they were living at 6 Port Vale, Hertford. His father was a jobbing gardener whilst his mother ran a dairy business and both Sidney and his brother worked as business assistants. According to probate records he left £793-17s-5d to his widow Isabella Duncan Parcell and he was living at Bengeo Farm, Bengeo.
Wartime Service
Sidney was originally posted to a Reserve battalion and then transferred to (427807) 693rd Company, Agricultural Company Labour Corps, he would have served in the UK only, working as an agricultural labourer. He attended Bedford on 8 Feb 1919 to receive his discharge papers from the Labour Corps, but suffered exposure while sleeping in a draughty shed on the coldest night of the year. He died of pneumonia.
Additional Information
Sidney was originally posted to a Reserve battalion and then transferred to an Agricultural Labour Company, he would have served in the UK only, working as an agricultural labourer. He attended Bedford on 8 Feb 1919 to receive his discharge papers from t
Acknowledgments
Terry & Glenis Collins, Malcolm Lennox
