Name
Sidney Edward Halsey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Army Service Corps
Motor Transport
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Sidney Halsey was born in the Summer of 1887 at Bedmond. He was one of five children (three sons and two daughters) born to Edward and Susan Halsey. In the 1891 Census the family lived at 82 Sutton Road, Watford. Edward worked as a Railway Clerk. By 1901 the family had moved to Abbots Langley, and lived in Abbots Road, where they lived at “Fair View”.
In the 1911 Census Sidney was recorded working as a Gardener Domestic, and living at Tring Park Gardens, “The Bothy”, London Road, Tring. Tring Park was one of seven country estates bought and embellished by the Rothschild family from the nineteenth century onwards.
Sidney was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in December 1915 serving with the Motor Transport Army Service Corps (MTASC). He was recorded in the Roll of Honour each month through to the end of the War, serving with the MTASC.
Sidney Halsey survived the War, as did his brother Arthur, and cousin Walter James Botwright.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
