Sidney was ****ed with the British Expeditionary Force and left a widow, Eva, but sadly, no children. He was one of six children born to William Sidney (at some time a policeman)and Rebecca Martha Welling (nee Hoare). Alice appears to have died as a child. The family moved between different houses in Lansdowne Street in the Brunswick district of Brighton and Hove, East Sus***. By all accounts it was a crowded and lively household with lots of visitors on whom my father and his brother liked to play tricks.. William and two of Sidney's siblings Violet and Stanley, became chiropodists and never married. Sidney is recorded working at a Gentleman's Toilet Saloon (presumably a Barber shop with extras!). Sidney's remaining sisters Olive and (Lillian) Daisy, my grandmother, were married. Olive moved away and had only one child. Daisy had two sons and stayed in the family home looking after Rebecca until she died in March 1941, three weeks before I was born and after whom I was named. It has always saddened me to reflect that at least in part due to WWI, Sidney and his family only left two descendants in my generation (of grandchildren), to carry on the line.

Rebecca Day