Sidney Arthur Edwards

A Private with the 8th Battalion, Sidney died on 24th of September 1918 aged 22. 

Sidney was born at Kessingland in 1896, a son of Frederick George and Laura Edwards. He was baptised at Saint Edmund’s Church, Kessingland, on 6 September 1896 and his family lived at Upper Kessingland. In 1901 his family lived at 32 Seago Street, Lowestoft, and in 1911 at 27 Princes Road when Sidney was a chemist’s errand boy. Later his parents lived at 164 Saint Peters Street.

Sidney enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft. He joined the Royal Sussex Regiment and was posted to the 8th Battalion in France. On 24 September 1918 the 8th Battalion were in the vicinity of Lieramont – Villers-Faucon doing trench salvage works and repairs. Sidney was killed in action but the battalion war diary gives no details of the circumstances. 

Sidney's brother-in-law, Frank Whaley, served with the Royal Artillery and died in 1941.