Name
Sidney Renshaw
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
17621
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 48 to 50 and 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of the late Edmund Willmott and Lois (nee SEABORNE) RENSHAW.
His parents married 23 June 1878 at St Mary’s, Marylebone, London. Lois died 1898 in the Wandsworth, London, district aged 44. Edmund remarried 20 June 1901 at St Mary’s, Battersea, London, to Edith Marion SCOTT; he died 8 August 1916 in Watford aged 72, and was buried 11 August in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Sidney was born 1894 in Battersea, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Battersea, with his widowed father and seven siblings. On the 1911 Census, an organ builder aged 17, he still lived in Battersea, with his father, step-mother and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 30 July 1915, and was presumed killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Sidney’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
