Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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Sydney Thomas LAFBERY
Private 25186 Sydney Thomas LAFBERY
1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Died, Monday 26th August 1918, France, age 19
| Home address: | 20 Maxim Road, Crayford, Kent |
| Born: | 1899, Crayford, Kent |
| Parents: | Martha C. Lafbery and Thomas Edmund Percy Lafbery 21 Dorrington Road, Carlton Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Occupation: | School pupil |
| Enlisted: | Stockport, Cheshire |
| Remembered: | Rumaucourt German Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France, memorial panel 2. Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, a Kipling memorial. |
| Link to Hyde: | Not Known |
Died a Prisoner of War.
Two "Kipling Memorial"s are described in official records for the cemetery at Vis-en-Artois.
Their inscriptions are:
| To the memory of these two British soldiers who died as Prisoners of War (1918) and were buried at the time in RUMAUCOURT GERMAN CEMETERY, but whose graves are now lost. Their glory shall not be blotted out. 2/5 N Staffs 200258 Wilshaw Sgt E 21/3/18 1st Cheshire Regt 25186 Lafbery Pte S T 26/8/18 | To the memory of 25186 Private S T Lafbury Cheshire Regiment 26th August 1918, age 19 who was buried in Rumaucourt German Cemetery but whose grave is now lost. |
One memorial may have been temporary, and one more permanent?, but we are unsure if either or both still exist.