Name
Alfred Henry Guy Sadd
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/08/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8736
Royal Fusiliers *1
20th (County of London) Bn.
'B' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
III. F. 69.
France
Headstone Inscription
DEVOTEDLY LOVED INEXPRESSIBLY MOURNED THE JOY OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints' Church Memorial(s), Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Bishop's Stortford College Memorial Hall, Bishop's Stortford, Estate Duty Office Memorial, Fitzroy House, Nottingham, (Memorial originally in Minford House, Shepherd's Bush, London)
Pre War
Alfred Henry Guy Sadd was born in Brentwood, Essex in 1896 (baptised 7 Mar 1896) to Alfred Henry Sadd, a civil servant, school inspector, and Jenny (nee Barker).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Edith Marjorie (born 1893), Grace D (born 1894), Alfred Guy, and Jenny May (born 1898) were living at 8 Westbury Road, Brentwood.
By the 1911 the family of parents, Edith, Grace, Alfred, Jenny May and P J Roy (born 1902) were living at 42 Grange Road, Bishop's Stortford where Alfred Guy was a schoolboy and his father a School Inspector for Essex.
Guy was educated at Bishop's Stortford College. He worked as a Civil Servant in the Inland Revenue Office before his enlistment.
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for Guy. He enlisted in London as Private 8736, in the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) sometime probably in late 1914/early 1915 and was posted to 20th (Service) Battalion (3rd Public Schools) where he acquired the prefix PS to his service number.
Guy went to France with the Battalion on 15 Nov 1915, to join 19th Brigade, 33rd Division. The Battalion took part in the Battles of the Somme in 1916: Albert (1-13 Jul), Bazentin (14-17 Jul and High Wood (20-25 Jul). Guy died of wounds on 24 Aug 1916, possibly sustained while the Battalion were holding a front line position, at one of three Casualty Clearing Stations, stationed at Heilly, between Amiens and Albert, at that time.
Additional Information
His father Alfred received a War Gratuity of £4 and arrears of £4 3s 6d.
Alfred is also commemorated on a headstone in Bishop's Stortford Old Cemetery, his inscription reads:
"TO THE MEMORY OF GUY SADD, WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR, AUGUST 24 1916, AGED 20. BURIED(?) IN HEILLY CEMETERY, 20TH(?) BATT. R/F"
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
