Name
Sidney Brian Rumsey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/04/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
50692
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
17th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 31 to 34 and 162 and 162A and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield - Dagmar House School, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Sidney Brian Rumsey Williams was born in 1898 to William Rumsey Williams, builder, and Ellen Georgina (nee Cooper).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, William (born 1880), Frank (born 1885), May (born 1892), Cecil Hugh (born 1893), Nellie (born 1895) and Sidney at Southgate Road, South Mimms.
On the 1911 Census the family of parents, May, Cecil, Nellie, and Sidney were still living at Southgate Road.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Sidney. However, he enlisted as Private 50692 in the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment. Following his training he went to France on 6 Jul 1916 in a draft of 120 men transferred as reinforcements to the 17th (Service) Battalion (1st City) Battalion of the King's (Liverpool) Regiment joining the in the field on 24 Jul 1916. On the 18 Oct 1917 he was wounded in action (Gunshot Wound to face back) and admitted to the 96 Field Ambulance and then no. 2 Casualty Clearing Station on 18 Jul, to 56 General hospital on 19 July. After treatment he was transferred on 24 Oct 1917 to 6 Convalescent Depot.
Sidney re-joined his Battalion on 3 Jan 1918. He was granted leave 16-30 Mar 1918. Sidney was reported killed in action on 30 Apr 1918(possibly the result of Artillery action). His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £6 10s and arrears of £3 17s 5d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Alan Kenny
