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R/11754 9th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Sidney Smith was born in 1889 in Colne Engaine, Essex, one of thirteen surviving children of Harry and Emma Smith. His father was employed as a horseman and agricultural labourer and the family lived at Brick House Road, Colne Engaine before moving to 13 Great Yard, Sidings Hill in Halstead. Like his father and brothers Sidney was employed as a farmhand.
Sidney married Lizzie King in 1914 and after the war Lizzie lived in Sudbury in Harp Close Road.
It is not known when Sidney enlisted or joined his battalion, which formed part of 42nd Brigade, 14th (Light) Division. He served alongside Sudbury man Harry Sillitoe, who lost his life five months after Sidney.
Sidney died aged 30 on 7 May 1916 and lies buried in Habarcq Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France.
A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his grave in October 2011.
Sidney is also remembered on the Trinity Congregational Church Memorial which was moved to the United Reformed Church, School Street when Trinity closed. The United Reformed Church closed in 2017 and it is proposed that the memorials from both churches will be relocated to the Sudbury Cemetery Chapel.
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