Name
Sidney George Lewis Roberts
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6922
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
London Colney Village Memorial, London Colney Roll of Honour, Not on the Redbourn memorials, Not on the St Albans Memorials
Pre War
Sidney George Lewis ROBERTS was born in the early part of 1897, in Redbourn, Hertfordshire, son of Frederick Roberts a Carman and Mary Ann Fanny Roberts (nee Brandon), his mother is recorded as Brandham in the register of births. One of their eight children. His parents were married on 3rd June 1895, in Redbourn, Herts.
1901 Census records Sidney aged 4, living with his parents, sister Gertrude (5), and brother Reginald (1), in Lamb Lane, Redbourn, Herts.
1911 Census, Sidney (14), is at school, living with his parents, brothers Reginald (11), Charles (6), sisters Gladys (5) and Nellie (2), at 166 Fishpond Street, St Albans, Herts.
Sister Florence May Roberts was born in 1911, and sister Glindoline Winifred Roberts was born in 1914.
Wartime Service
Sidney enlisted at St Albans, Herts, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment, issued with the service number 4/6922. On completion of his training, he was sent to the Western Front on 12th August 1915. He was Killed in Action on 8th July 1916; at the Battle of the Somme (Battle of the Somme, 1st July to 18th November 1916) he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing. Pier & Face 2C.
Additional Information
His effects of £15-17s-07d, pay owing went to his Mother Mary and his war gratuity of £9, went to his father Frederick.
His mother Mary died in 1920. The 1921 Census record his widower father, Fred, five sisters and brother Charles, living in White Lion lane, London Colney, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, Gareth Hughes
