Sidney Fox

A Private with the 7th Battalion, Sidney died on 28th of February 1916 at the age of 19. 

Sidney was born at Norwich in 1896, a son of Benjamin and Ruth Edith Fox. In 1901 his family lived at 22 Geoffrey Road, Old Lakenham, Norwich. By 1911 they were living at 28 Beaconsfield Road, Lowestoft, and Sidney was a telegraph messenger. 

Sidney volunteered and enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft. He joined the Suffolk Regiment, service number 18740, and was posted to the 7th Battalion, arriving in France on 4 October 1915. 

On 26 February 1916 the 7th Battalion moved into front lines trenches, near Noyelles, and including a trench feature known as the Hairpin. The Battalion’s war diary states that at 9.30 p.m. there was grenade activity ‘near right leg of hairpin. We silenced a sniper and had one killed and three wounded.’

It seems that Sidney was wounded on the 26th and succumbed to his wounds on 28 February.