BORN HULL 1899. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM FAWCETT & ALICE BEAN, OF THIS ADDRESS. ONE OF TWELVE CHILDREN. WAS MEMBER OF 1ST HULL SCOUT’S TROOP. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 10TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 22/09/1917, AGED 18. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S HYMER COLLEGE MEMORIAL. HE IS BURIED AT LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “JESUS ALL PITYING, JESUS BLESS, GRANT HIM THINE ETERNAL REST”
First name:
SIDNEY
Military Number:
38433
Rank:
Private
Date Died
22/09/1917
Place died:
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaaderen, Belgium
Age:
20
3 FERN TERRACE, ROSE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
