Name
Sidney George Human
5 September 1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Marlowes Methodist Church War Memorial, Hemel Hempstead (*1)
Pre War
Sidney George Human was born on 5 September 1898 in Hemel Hempstead, the son of Alfred and Selina Human and one of eight children. On the 1901 Census the family were living at 4 Alma Road, Hemel Hempstead when his father was working as a Railway Bus Driver. They remained in Alma Road on the 1911 Census, but had moved to No. 11, at which time Sidney was a 12 year old schoolboy.
When he returned from the war he found employment as a Postman in 1920. He married Margaret Dollimore in 1922 in Hemel Hempstead and they were living at St Paul's Road, Hemel Hempstead on the 1939 Register. His occupation was given as General Post Office and Auxiliary Fire Service. He died in 1951 and is buried in Heath Lane Cemetery, Hemel Hempstead.
N.B. His brother Reginald is also named on the Marlowes Methodist Memorial as a survivor of the war
Wartime Service
Sidney served with the 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, reg. no. 45457 from 30 August 1916. He was wounded on 5 September 1918, suffering a bullet wound to his chest which hit his sternum, one of his ribs and his right arm. He was repatriated to England on 11 March 1919 and sent to the County of Middlesex War Hospital.
He was discharged on 20 March 1919 and, because of a 50% degree of disablement, received a weekly pension of 13s 9d a week which was to be reviewed in 26 weeks. He was also awarded Silver War Badge No. B/170951.
He enlisted into the Hertfordshire Regiment Territorial Force on 19 July 1920. reg. no. 5987404 and served until 18 July 1921.
Additional Information
*1 Marlowes Methodist Church was one of the five churches that merged in 2006 to form Hemel Hempstead Methodist Church. The Marlowes Methodist Church building was built in 1890 and used regularly from then until 2006 and then again as the main Hemel Hempstead Methodist Church building from May 2012 until it finally closed in March 2014. The war memorial was removed from the building before demolition and passed to the local British Legion. The war memorial is unusual in that it names those who returned safely as well as those who died.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
mymethodisthistory.org.uk
