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Sgt. Sidney Twigg
British Army 136th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:The School House, Doveridge, Derbyshire
My paternal grandfather Sidney Twigg was born in 1886. He was 28 at the start of the war,and already the headmaster of Doveridge village school since 1906. He served with the RAMC as a Sergeant with 136th Field Ambulance, attached to the 40th Division of the British Army, which saw action in the Somme, Cambrai, Flanders, Ypres, and other battles.
His medals from WW1 are the "Mutt and Jeff" pair. After 1918 he returned to his headmaster job, staying in that post until he retired in 1951, and is well remembered on the Doveridge village website.
During WW2 he was in the Home Guard, and also a Special Constable. His medals include the Defence Medal, and the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal with 3 bars from the WW2 period. He died in 1961.