Sidney Avril Brand

A Private with the 7th Battalion, Sidney died on 27th of September 1916 at the age of 26. 

Sidney was born at Lowestoft on 2 April 1891, a son of Robert William and Kate Eliza Brand. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft, on 6 May 1891 and his family lived at Laundry Lane. In 1911 they were still living at Laundry Lane and Sidney was a farm labourer. Later his parents lived at 7 Waveney Terrace, Victoria Road, Oulton Broad.

Sidney was working as a butcher when he attested for the Army, at Bury St. Edmunds. He was called up on 26 May 1916. He joined the 3/1st Suffolk Yeomanry, service number 2657. He was transferred to the Suffolk Regiment and posted to the 1/4th Battalion, in France, on 27 August 1916. On 7 September 1916 he was transferred to the 4th (Reserve) Battalion The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), service number G/18099, and was immediately posted to the 7th Battalion.   

The 7th Battalion War Diary for October 1916 cannot be traced, hence, other than that he was killed in action, no further details of what happened to Sidney are known.