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Rflmn. Sidney Burtt
British Army 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Battalion London Regiment
from:London
Sidney Burtt was born in 1897 in Hackney Downs, London. His parents were Sidney M Burtt (1875-1938) and Adeline E Muscat (1870-1932). He had a sister Adeline born in 1898 and who died in 1945. By the time of the 1901 census the family were living at 18 Arlington Park Gardens North Chiswick, Brentford.
Sidney enlisted in April 1916 in the 17th Battalion, London Regiment, the Poplar & Stepney Rifles. He enlisted as a rifleman and was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
In the third quarter of 1921 he married Lucy Swalwell who was born in 1902 in Northallerton Yorkshire. They had two sons William, who was born on the 16th March 1925 in Ealing, and Peter Gordon who was born in September 1927 in Brentford. Sidney died on the 6th July 1958 in Bristol.

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