Name
Sydney Allan Pritchard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/03/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
1545
Royal Field Artillery
2/4th East Anglian Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Panel 60 to 64.
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
Pre War
He had been a professional cricketer.
In the 1911 census he is living at the Spotted Dog public House, Uxbridge Road, Mill End with his aunt Rose Pritchard and cousin Mabel Pritchard. He was born in Harefield in 1897 - possibly the son of F. George Pritchard of Patchett’s Green Farm, Aldenham, Watford.
He was issued with a silver war badge no. 65067 which was issued to soldiers who had been honourably discharged because of illness or wounds.
Recorded as enlisting in Hertford on the 17th August 1915.
Wartime Service
He was serving at Thetford Camp when we was taken ill with phthisis (TB) and discharged under the King's Regulations as physically unfit on 26th May 1916.
He refused sanatorium treatment and died on 4th March 1918, aged 21.
Additional Information
Not in the CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
