Name
Sydney Cecil Geering
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
4th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HANGARD COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
III. AA. 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford, St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford, St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford, Hertford Working Men’s Club (Now Sloppy Joe’s Bar)
Pre War
Born in 1891 in Canterbury, Kent, son of Sydney William and Julia Hannah (Bates) Geering and baptised on 24 May 1891 in Canterbury. He was living in 21 North Road, Hertford in 1901. His father ran the family firm of Geering and Tregaskiss (Motors) in Hertford.
He married Elizabeth B. Miles in 1913 and had one son. They later lived with her mother Nurse Miles at 18 Currie Street, Hertford. He worked as Assistant Secretary to Saunderson & Mills of Bedford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted 11203 (and 270985) Private Hertfordshire Regiment and obtained a commission as 2nd Lieutenant London Regiment. He entered France on 26 Dec 1916 and died of wounds as a Prisoner of War.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
