Name
Sidney George Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/04/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28018
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Ippolyts Village Memorial
Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church
We are not aware of any Little Almshoe memorial
Pre War
Sidney was born in 1890, in St Ippolyts, Herts. The son of George Smith a Publican and Julia Smith.
The 1891 Census records Sidney aged 6 months, living with his parents at the Public House, Village Road, St Ippolyts, Herts. The 1901 Census records Sidney aged 11, living with his Grandparents, George and Emma Smith, in Little Almshoe, St Ippolyts, Herts. The 1911 Census records Sidney aged 20, still living with his Grandparents, in Little Almshoe, St Ippolyts, Herts. His occupation is given as a General Farm Labourer.
Wartime Service
Sidney enlisted in Hitchin; he was posted to the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, with the service number 28018.
Sidney was Killed in Action on the 29th April 1917. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Arras Memorial to the Missing.
Additional Information
His personal inscription on the headstone reads: “Son of George and Julia Smith of, Little Almshoe, Hitchin, Herts”. Sidney’s younger brother Frank Smith was Killed in Action on the 24th September 1916.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Jonty Wild.
