Name
Sidney Victor Bridgeman
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/10/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235041
Lincolnshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford.
Little Hallingbury War Memorial, Essex
Pre War
Sidney Bridgeman was born in Little Hallingbury, Essex (Bishop's Stortford registration
district) in 1896 to John and Lydia Bridgeman, where his father was a sawyer.
By the 1911 Census, his mother had died, but Sidney was still living with his
father and two sisters at Little Hallingbury and working as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hertford and Initially served in Hertfordshire Regiment, under Reg. No. 2921 (Medal Index Cards) & 265739 (SDIGW) Herts Regiment. He was killed on 10 October 1917 and his body was never recovered.
Additional Information
His father received his pay owing of £7 6s 1d and a war gratuity of £14.00.
N.B.
The surname Bridgeman is sometimes spelt without the middle 'e'.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
