Name
(William) Sidney Lawrence Geeves
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4713
London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
1st/15th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 13 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Leonard Eglington and the late Ellen Mary (nee LINDFORD) GEEVES.
His parents married 26 December 1885 at St Luke’s, Victoria Docks, West Ham, Essex. Ellen died 1905 aged 42; Leonard died 1927 aged 64; both in the West Ham district.
Sidney was born 7 June 1889 in Bow, London, and baptised 4 August 1889 at St John’s, Hackney, London. He resided in Watford.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 he lived in Bromley St Leonard, London, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 11 he lived in Wood Green, Middx, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a grocer’s clerk aged 21, he was a boarder in North Finchley, Middx.
Recorded as living in Watford when he enlisted in London.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Sidney’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
