Name
Sidney Moore
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/75907
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
2nd/2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
I. E. 21.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial
Pre War
Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire in 1899, Sidney Moore was the only child of Sidney and Emily (nee Berwick) Moore, of Bushey, Herts. His parents were married in 1895 in the registration district of Kettering.
At the 1901 Census, Sidney is 2 years old and living with his parents at 114 Prince’s Street in Kettering. Sidney (Snr.) and Emily are 33 and 31 years old respectively and Sidney (Snr.) is working as a Boot Laster. Their birthplaces are given as Pytchley in Kettering for Sidney and Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire for Emily.
By the time of the 1911 Census, the family had moved to 130 Llanover Road in Wembley, Middlesex. Sidney (Snr.) is now working on his ’own account’ as a butcher (dealer) and Emily is assisting in the business. Sidney (Jnr.) is aged 12 and still at school.
Wartime Service
Sidney enlisted in Watford in the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), initially as Private 2864 in the 21st Training Reserve Battalion before being posted as Private G/75907 with the 2nd/2nd Battalion with the Regiment.
He died of wounds on 26 April 1918, aged 19, and was buried at Crouy British Cemetery at Crouy-sur-Somme in France, grave reference I. E. 21. He is also commemorated on the Bushey War Memorial and at St Paul’s Church, Bushey. His father ran a grocery business in Bushey Hall Road in the 1920s.
Additional Information
The headstone inscription on his grave reads “LOVE SHALL E’ER REMAIN AND WE IN GOD’S GOOD TIME SHALL MEET AGAIN”
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
