Sidney Harold Dutt was born in early 1899 in Frindsbury, near Strood.\u00a0 In 1901 the 2-year old was living in Strood, with his father John, a 50-year old housepainter, his mother, Amelia (aged 40), an older brother, and three sisters.\u00a0 Sidney was the youngest child at that point.<\/p>\n
In 1901 the family lived at 62, Station Road, Frindsbury.\u00a0 Sidney\u2019s mother had died and his eldest sister was married, but still in the family home.\u00a0 Another sister was a laundry worker, but the third was no longer in the household.\u00a0 Sidney now had a fourth, younger sister, who like him, was a school pupil at the time.<\/p>\n
Sidney enlisted in Chatham and he joined the Second Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment.\u00a0 He held the rank of private and his regimental number was 240723.\u00a0 He was killed at the age of 19 on 15 April 1918.\u00a0 Sidney is buried at the Canada Farm cemetery near Ieper (Ypres). His father received his effects and war gratuity.\u00a0\u00a0 His page on Every Man Remembered is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ancestry.co.uk<\/p>\n 1901 England Census<\/em>\u00a0[database on-line]. Class:\u00a0RG13<\/em>; Piece:\u00a0720<\/em>; Folio:\u00a018<\/em>; Page:\u00a025<\/em><\/p>\n 1911 England Census<\/em>\u00a0[database on-line]. Class:\u00a0RG14<\/em>; Piece:\u00a03867<\/em>; Schedule Number:\u00a0359<\/em><\/p>\n UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919<\/em>\u00a0[database on-line].<\/p>\n National Army Museum; Chelsea, London, England;\u00a0Soldiers’ Effects Records, 1901-60<\/em>; NAM Accession Number:\u00a01991-02-333<\/em>; Record Number Ranges:\u00a0679001-680500<\/em>; Reference:\u00a0404<\/em><\/p>\n