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Gnr. Sidney Jackson Legge
British Army 8th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Cambridgeshire
Sid Legge was born in 1896 and left home in Cambridgeshire to join the Army in 1913. He was then 7269 Private S. Legge of the 3rd Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment. He attained his Third Class Certificate of Education on the 18th July, 1913 at the Army School in Colchester.
It appears that at the outbreak of the Great War he was transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery and posted to the 8th Siege Battery and became 39552 Gunner S. Legge. He was shipped to France in 1914 with his Regiment, and spent the whole war there, apart from leave, till the armistice in 1918. He was engaged in a battle on the 21st and 22nd May, 1916 on the Western front for which the 8th Siege Battery was mentioned in dispatches. At one stage of his service he was wounded in action.
He was demobbed after the war and married Daisy Richardson in 1919. He then took up a position as a postman in Scotswood, Newcastle Upon Tyne. He died in Wolverhampton in 1981.
