SIDDONS, Bruce Lionel
| Service Number: | 1632 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 55th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Oundle, Northamptonshire , United Kingdom, 3 April 1886 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Oundle School, Northamptonshire , United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 1 September 1918, aged 32 years |
| Cemetery: |
Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension Grave I.C.01. INSCRIPTION BELOVED SON OF J. & E. SIDDONS OUNDLE, NORTHANTS. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH , Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Peronne, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1632, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: '' | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1632, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Sydney | |
| 1 Sep 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 1632, 55th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1632 awm_unit: 55th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-09-01 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He entered Oundle school as a day boy in September 1898 and left in July 1902. At the time when war broke out he was in Australia, and he was with the second detachment of the Australian Imperial Force, having enlisted in the infantry. Unwilling to leave the men with whom he had come from Australia, he would not accept a commission, but was promoted sergeant after a course of instruction in England. He was killed in the attack on Peronne on September i, 1918. His commanding officer said that it was a fight which covered their brigade with glory and that Siddons could ill be spared as he was one of their best N.C.O's.
He is honoured on the Oundle School War Memorial in theChapel of St. Anthony, Oundle School Chapel, Milton Road,Oundle, East Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, PE8 4AB, England.
[Chapel with five memorial tablets on rear wall of the Sanctuary. Sword on each tablet with cross on hilt & rays of sunshine radiating from the hilt.]
On rood beam : IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED Memorial tablet, centre : 1914-1918 Other four tablets : 'FAITH', 'HOPE', 'SERVICE', 'SACRIFICE'
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Dec 1886 Siddons Bruce Lionel Oundle 3b,_1_
Oundle spans the boundaries of the counties of Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire.
He enlisted at Sydney, New South Wales. He was 32 and the son of John Miller Siddons and Eleanor Mary Siddons, Silver Birch, Milton Road, Oundle, Northamptonshire England.
He is remembered on the Oundle and Ashton war memorial which stands in New Street, Oundle. It takes the form of a five-stepped octagonal base surmounted by two square plinths and a rectangular pillar with a wreath in relief in the middle of pillar; this is further surmounted by a small cross. There are multiple inscription on the faces of the steps, the plinth and the pillar sides. Eight stone posts linked by a chain fence surround the memorial; the whole memorial stands on a low brick circular roundabout.
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