Sydney Hargreaves
In 1911, he was a pump boy below ground.
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Sydney Hargreaves was born on 14th September 1896 at Huthwaite he was the son of Joseph a coal miner deputy and Mary Ann Hargreaves née Burdett and the brother of Walter, Ernest, Lily Adeline, Minnie, William, Thomas Leslie and Violet, Gladys and Emily Hargreaves.
His father Joseph was born in 1871 at Grendon, Warwickshire, his mother Mary Ann Burdett was born in 1874 at Twogates, Staffordshire, they were married on 25th December 1893 at Tamworth they went on to have 10 children.
In 1901 they lived at 61, Sutton Road, Sutton in Ashfield Nottinghamshire.
In the 1911 census the family lived at 31, Barleywood Road Sheffield. Joseph 40 yrs is a coal miner deputy, he is living with hs wife Mary Ann 37 yrs and their 7 children including Sydney 13 yrs a colliery pump boy.
He was the husband of Gertrude (née Skidmore later Bedford) Hargreaves (born 17th February 1897) whom he married on 6th August 1916 at Holy Trinty Church, Darnall, Sheffield and the father of Gladys Hargreaves born 13th March 1917,
Commencing 9th June 1919 his widow was awarded a pension of 20 shillings and 5 pence a week, at this date she was living at 46 Nightingale Street, Darnell, Sheffield.
Sydney Hargreave enlisted at Sheffield, he served with the 1st battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry he was killed in action on 8th November 1918 during the battle for Doulers a small village between Mauberge and Avesnes-sur-Helpes.
Dourlers village was in German hands during almost the whole of the First World War. It was taken on 7 November 1918, after heavy fighting, by the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 1st K.O.Y.L.I. The communal cemetery was used by the Germans during the war, but in November 1918, a small extension was made by Commonwealth troops at the west end. After the Armistice, the German graves from the communal cemetery and others from the battlefields, together with Commonwealth graves from isolated positions and the following small cemeteries, were brought into the extension:- LIMONT-FONTAINE COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION, contained 45 graves; LANCASHIRE CEMETERY, ST. HILAIRE-SUR-HELPE, contained 15 graves. The Extension contains 161 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 14 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to four casualties known or believed to be buried among them. The extension also contains 108 German burials, 62 of which are unidentified.
additional research and informationPeter Gillings
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Sydney Hargreaves