Sidney Deacon

Memorial: Hawkesbury Upton

Regiment: Labour Corps

Rank and number: Private 93153

Date of birth: 1876

Date of death: 1920

Age: 44

Further information:

Sidney Deacon was a veteran of the Boer War when he enlisted in 1915. Sidney was the father of five children and served in France for much of the war. He survived the war, only to die of TB in 1920, attributed to his wartime service

Sidney Deacon served with the 156th Labour Company, Labour Corps

Sidney Deacon is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Hawkesbury

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

Many thanks to the researcher Simon Bendry