Name
Sydney (Sidney) Binks
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/09/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
44066
Essex Regiment
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
S.II.E.4
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park, Not on the Stanstead Abbotts memorials
Pre War
Born in 1899, in Walthamstow, to parents Frederick and Emily, he had three brothers and two sisters. In 1901 they were living in Folly Lane, Walthamstow and his father was employed as a horse clipper. By 1911 he was living in Goose Green, Hoddesdon with his widowed mother and sister Elsie and later in 91 Old Highway, Rye Park, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.
When he enlisted he was recorded as being resident in Stanstead Abbotts.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 11656 Bedfordshire Regiment.
10th Battalion was sent to France on July 26th 1915, to Fleselles via Boulogne. In 1916 they fought at many of the Somme battles including, Albert, Trones Wood, Delville Wood and Thiepval Ridge.
In 1917 they were in action at the Ancre, and the Battle for Scarpe. They were then transferred to Flanders where they saw action at Pilkem Ridge, Langemarck and Passchendaele. The following year the Battalion fought at St Quentin, Amiens, and Bapaume and on the Hindenburg Line where, at the end of September at St Quentin canal, Sydney was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Terry Collins
