SIDNEY COOLING was serving as a Private in the 1st Battalion, The Grenadier Guards when he died of wounds received on 26th August 1918. He was aged 27 and is buried in Moyenville Two Tree Cemetery.

He was the son of James and Frances Cooling, of Broughton. 

He had been working as a waiter and lodging in Paddington when he joined the Grenadier Guards in March 1915. He joined the 1st Battalion in France on 6th November 1915 during The Battle of Loos. As part of the Guards Division they saw action during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and the Battles of Passchendaele and Cambrai in 1917. In spring of 1918 they fought to hold back the Germans as they advanced into the Somme in a final attempt to win the war. He was wounded in action during the 1918 Battle of Albert as the British advanced into the 1916 Somme Battlefields.

Steve Kingsford