WARD Sidney Charles

Resident Evesham, Worcestershire, enlisted Pershore, Worcestershire

On the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database he is listed as Private C.S. Ward, 9th Battalion Training Reserve, Service No TR7/13328.

The birth of Sidney Charles Ward is registered in the March Quarter 1899 under the Evesham Registration District.

Sidney Charles Ward as he is identified in the church, or Charles Sidney Ward as he is identified on his gravestone and by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, was the eldest son of Henry and Edith Ward, Leys Road Harvington.  He joined the army on his 18th birthday and was attached to the 11th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry at Chiseldon Camp, Wiltshire, where he contracted measles and pneumonia.  His mother was with him when he died aged 18 on the 26th April 1917.  He is buried in Harvington cemetery.

A photograph of Private S. Ward of Harvington can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 5th May 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

The photograph of the grave of Sidney Ward in Harvington churchyard is inscribed with the Commonwealth War Grave Commission details: C.S. Ward Service No TR7/13328.