Name
Sidney Bishop
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/08/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28075
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY, GEZAINCOURT
IV. E. 26.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE DID HIS DUTY
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Sidney Leonard Bishop was born in 1896 in Black Notley, Essex, the son of Julia Maria Bishop.
On the 1901 Census he was living with his mother and sister Jessie at Notley Cottages, Black Notley, Essex where his mother was working as a needlewoman. She married Thomas Ludlow in 1901 and on the 1911 Census Sidney was living with them at 5 Cross Oak Road, Berkhamsted and working as an errand boy for a grocer's shop
Wartime Service
Sidney enlisted in Bedford and joined the Hertfordshire Regiment.
He died of wounds on 24 August 1918, probably following the successful attack on a railway cutting in front of Achiet-le-Grand in which 26 men were killed and 140 wounded.
He is buried at Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, France which was used by the 3rd, 29th and 56th Casualty Clearing Stations from April 1918.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £10 10s and pay owing of £14 11s. She also received a pension of five shillings a week. While living at 9 Cross Oak Road, Berkhamsted, Herts., she ordered his headstone memorials: "HE DID HIS DUTY".
N.B. the spelling of Sidney is sometimes with a 'y' as it was originally registered,
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
