900: Pte Sidney Brown (photograph)

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posted on 2024-01-12, 09:30 authored by Lest We Forget Project Team

Sidney Brown joined the Sherwood Foresters in 1915, and sent letters home from training camps in Northumberland and Southampton. He writes about shooting at Zeppelins over the coast of north-east England and thanks his mother for sending jam tarts as a treat. He is accepting of having to fight and possibly kill German soldiers. The final letter speaks about being shortly posted to France. His name is on the Thiepval memorial.

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Yvonne Alton

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Sidney Brown

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Sidney died on Friday 15 September 1916 age 21.

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Somme

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Photograph of Sidney in uniform standing with rifle.

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900: Pte Sidney Brown (photograph)

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