Name
Sidney George Hoar
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/02/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
DM2/169136
Army Service Corps
605th Mechanical Transport Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SALONIKA (LEMBET ROAD) MILITARY CEMETERY
894
Greece
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Apsley Mills, Apsley, Marlowes Methodist Church, Marlowes
Pre War
Sidney George Hoar was born in 1895 in Hemel Hempstead, the son of Harry and Mary Hoar and one of five sons.
On the 1901 Census, the family were living at 103 Marlowes. Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, where his father was working as a House Painter. His mother's occupation was given as dressmaker and his elder brother 13 year old Harry was also working, as a stamper at the Paper Mill.
They had moved to 65 Bridge Street, Hemel Hempstead by 1911 and Sidney was working as a Tinman, with his father now a fishmonger and his mother still a dressmaker. His uncle Walter Kentish had joined the family and he was working as a cheesemonger.
On enlistment, Sidney was working at Apsley Mills.
His parents later lived at 20 London Road, Hemel Hempstead.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hemel Hempstead in March 1916 and joined the Army Service Corps. He was posted to the 605th Mechanical Transport Company as a 'Mechanical Transport Learner' and went to Salonika as a Driver in late 1916.
The circumstances of his death are unknown, but he was killed in action in Salonika, Greece on 27 February 1917, aged 21, and is one 86 soldiers buried in the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery to have died on that day.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £6 2s 11d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.hemelheroes.com.
