242173 Pte. Sydney Pridmoresy Brown British Army 6th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment from:Sapcote, Leicestershire (d.6th May 1917) Sydney Brown was born and lived in the Leicestershire village of Sapcote with his father John, a quarry worker, and his stepmother, Harriet. He was a member of Sapcote Methodist Church. Sydney worked at a boot factory in the nearby village of Earl Shilton before joining up.
Sydney died when the shelter he and three others had made in the side of a trench collapsed in the night and smothered them. At the time he was an officer's servant and was in a less dangerous part of the line because his officer had been wounded.
After Sydney's death a court of inquiry was held, the verdict being accidental death. Sydney was one of three first cousins killed in WW1 all from the same village. He was 21 years of age when he died.
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