Name
Sidney Haystaff
27 Jan 1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/11/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
189993
Canadian Infantry
87th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
III. A. 24.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial,
St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Sidney Haystaff was born on 27 Jan 1883 in Aylesbury, Bucks to Henry (Harry) Haystaff, a carpenter, and Clara (nee Clark).
On the 1899 Census the family of parents, Sidney, Ada (born 1888), Edith Ann (born 1890) were living at Park Row,, 5 Park Road, Tring together with a boarder Alice M Holt aged 8 years.
By the 1901 Census the family of parents, (father Henry was now a foreman carpenter), Sidney ( a house painter), Ada, and Edith Ann were918 living at Carpenters Yard, Brook Street, Tring.
Sidney migrated to Canada leaving Liverpool on 17 Nov 1903 arriving St John, New Brunswick on 25 Nov 1903.
On the 1911 Canadian Census Sidney is as a lodger at Graham Street, West Lorne, Elgin West Ontario.
Wartime Service
Sidney attested on 19 Jun 1916 in St Thomas, Ontario giving his address as 351, George Street, Toronto and posted into 91st Battalion C E F but was discharged on 2 May 1916 as medically unfit.
He again attested in Hamilton, Ontario on 15 Dec 1917 and was accepted as Private 189993 in 8th Reserve Battalion. On 3 Feb 1918 he left Halifax aboard SS Scandinavian, arriving in Liverpool on 16 Feb 1918 and on 18 Aug 1918 was posted to France joining 4th Battalion Canadian Infantry(Kootenay)in 11 Brigade 4th Canadian Division but was detached to 87 Battalion (Grenadier Guards) also in 4 Canadian Division on 24 Aug 1918.
On 3 Sep 1918 he was again posted to 22 Battalion Canadian Infantry (Canadien Francais) but on 14 Sep 1918 he joined 87 Battalion (Grenadier Guards) in 4 Canadian Division. While all these movements were taking the Canadian Divisions were engage in the Battles of the Canal Du Nord (27 Sep-1 Oct 1918), Cambrai, (8-9 Oct 1918) and the Pursuit to the Selle (9-12 Oct 1918), which included the Battles of Sambre (4 Nov 1918) and Grand Honelle (5-7 Nov 1918). It is likely that Sidney was killed in this last action on 5 Nov 1918.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
