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Lance Corporal

Sydney Wildsmith

Service Number 24433
Military Unit 15th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 25 Aug 1917 (23 Years Old)
Place of Birth Nottingham
Employment, Education or Hobbies Gangboy in Newcastle pit (C. 1911)
Family History

Sydney Wildsmith was the son of Sidney Wildsmith and Harriett Bowler who married at Derby in 1891. Their children included: Ada (b.1892), Edith (b.1893), Sydney (b.1895), Elsie (b.1897), Gladys (b.1907) and Harry (b.1909). The Wildsmith family lived at: 2 Chatsworth Grove, St Ann’s [C.1891]; 28 Napoleon Square, Percy Street, Old Basford [C.1901]; 10 Shipstone Street, Radford Road, New Basford [C.1911]. In 1910 Sidney Wildsmith senior, who worked as a general labourer, died at Nottingham, aged 46. The 1911 census has his widow now returning to work as a cigar maker, an occupation she undertook at the time they were first married. The post-war address for Harriett Wildsmith, given in the CWGC records, was 252 Wordsworth Road, Radford. What subsequently happened to her is unclear.

Military History

He enlisted at Nottingham; killed in action; buried in the Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile, Aisne, France.

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