Name
Sydney Arthur Prevett
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/08/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
T/2916
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
2nd/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 30 and 31.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood
Pre War
Sydney Arthur Prevett was born in Penge/Beckenham, Kent, in 1884, the son of Edward Charles and Caroline Matilda Prevett.
Baptised at St Luke’s Church, West Norwood, Surrey, on 26 October 1884.
1891 Census records Sydney aged 6, living with his parents and three siblings in Florence Road, Beckenham, Kent.
By 1901 Sydney now aged 17, was working as a Domestic Gardener, still living with his parents, in Florence Road, with his five siblings.
Sydney married Annie Maria Cousins the daughter of Thomas and Anne Cousins of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in Bromley, Kent, in 1907. They went on to have four children Maria (B 1908), Mable (B 1909) Arthur (B 1910) and Victor Ronald (B 1915).
1911 Census records Sydney married to Annie, and they have three children Maria, Mable and Arthur, the family were living at, 322, Blandford Road, Beckenham, Kent, and Sydney was employed as a Brewers Drayman.
Wartime Service
Sydney enlisted at Croydon, Surrey, posted to The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment) with the service number initially T/2916 and later T/201150.
With his Battalion he sailed from Devonport Dockyard on 17 July 1915 for Lemnos, via Alexandria. Landing on “C” Beach, Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on the night of 8 & 9 August 1915, the Battalion going straight into action, they were involved in operations around the Suvla Bay area. The Battalion suffering heavy casualties, Sydney being one of them, he died on 29 August 1915, of wounds received in action, he was aged 31.
Additional Information
His only known connection to Borehamwood was Annie lived in Malden Road, Borehamwood, Herts. Annie received a widow’s pension of 25/- a week from 7 March 1916, and his effects of £2-1s-5d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £3.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
