Name
Sydney James Kent
7 December 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/04/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
636841
Canadian Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. K. 31.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE FOUGHT FOR OTHERS HE ANSWERED THE CALL
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Picton War Memorial, Canada (Sophiasburgh section)
Pre War
Sydney James Kent was born in Berkhamsted, Herts on 7 December 1896, the son of Frederick and Elizabeth Kent and one of four children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 16 Cross Oak Road, Berkhamsted where his father was working as an auctioneer's porter and local preacher.
The family left from Liverpool on 19 March 1903 on the Dominion Line ship 'Canada', heading for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. By the time of the Canadian Census in 1911 Sydney was living with his parents at Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada.
He was living at Picton, Ontario, Canada on enlistment and working as a farmer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 15 March 1916 at Picton and initially served with the 155th Regiment. They sailed from Halifax, Canada, arriving in England on SS Northland on 28 Oct 1916.
When he joined the battalion in the field in France on 13 December 1916, he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry.
Sydney died of wounds on 7 April 1917 at No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station and is buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Arras, France.
Additional Information
Mr F W C Kent, of Picton 2nd, Prince Ed. County, Ontario, Canada, ordered his headstone inscription: "HE FOUGHT FOR OTHERS HE ANSWERED THE CALL".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, central.bac-lac.gc.ca, www.veterans.gc.ca
