Name
Sydney Rand
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
265292
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Laurence Church Memorial, Wormley,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Broxbourne memorials
Pre War
Born in 1895 at Roydon, Essex, son of George and Eliza Rand (later living at 1 Lea Vale, Wormley, Broxbourne, Herts).
1911 Census: living with family at Galley Hill, Waltham Abbey, Herts and working as a nurseryman's labourer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hoddesdon, Herts. Left from Southampton on 23 January 1915.
Suffered a shell wound to the right eye on 21 March 1915 and sent to 4th Field Hospital. Re-joined the battalion on 1 April 1915.
Promoted to Lance Corporal in May and Sergeant the following April 1916.
Mentioned in Despatches 9 April 1917.
Additional Information
Also listed as a Private with Reg. No. 2123 – probably his original number before the Territorial forces were re-numbered.
War gratuity of £17 awarded to mother Eliza.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Jonty Wild
