Name
Sydney Robert Eldred
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/22518
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 14 to 17 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Sydney Robert Eldred was born in Barnet on 11 Apr 1897 (baptised 6 May 1897 at Christ Church, Barnet) to Edmund Eldred, shopkeeper and corn merchant, and Jessie Beatrice (nee Schmidt).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Jack (John Edmund born 1896), Sydney, and Rose Hoiles (nurse domestic0 were living at 145. High Street, South Mimms and on the 1911 Census the family of parents, Marjory Kathleen (born 1894), Jack, Sydney and Richard (born 1902) were living at Dancers Hill Farm, Dancers Hill, South Mimms
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Sydney. Other records state service as Private 2779 Sussex Yeomanry enlisted at Brighton, Sussex. This would some time in 1915 (serial 2375 was issued in 31 Dec 1914. He was transferred to Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment) as Private 22518 initially in 10 (Service) Battalion (Battersea). He went France to join the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment.
In 1917 the 2nd Battalion were deployed in the Ypres sector and took part in the Battles of Polygon Wood (26 Sep-3 Oct 1917, Broodseinde, (4 Oct 1917), Poelcapelle (9 Oct 1917) and 2nd Passchendaele (26 Oct-10 Nov 19170 It was during this last battle that Sydney was reported killed in action on 29 Oct 1917. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Ypres.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £10 10s and arrears of £5 1s 8d was paid to his father Edmund.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
