Name
Sydney Bancroft Bryant
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/05/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41326
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SOUPLET BRITISH CEMETERY
II. BB. 27
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans
Pre War
Sydney Bancroft Bryant was born in 1898 in Hornsey, Middlesex, the son of Alfred and Patience Bryant and one of two children. He had a brother named Harold.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at The Broadway, Newbury, Berks where his father was working as a dairyman/shopkeeper.
By the 1911 Census the family had moved to St Albans and were living at 47 London Road where his father was working as a wood merchant. Sydney was still at school. They also took in boarders and three boarders and two visitors were listed on Census night.
His mother, Patience Bryant, was living at The Queen's Arms, Bury Rd., Hemel Hempstead at the time of Sydney's death and later lived at The George Shades, High Street, Crawley.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and served with the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment,
He died on 30 May 1918 at the War Hospital in St Quentin and was initially buried in St Quentin cemetery but was 'concentrated' when the war ended and is now buried at St Souplet British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £7 and pay owing of £19 1s 7d. A pension was not awarded as claimant (his mother) did not wish to claim a pension. N.B. Soldiers who died in the Great War states that he 'Died' rather than dying of wounds or being killed in action, which suggests illness rather than combat.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Gareth Hughes
