Name : Sidney ROBERTS. Rank & Number : Private. 19461. Service : 8th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment. Date of Death : Friday, 14th July 1916. Age : Cause of Death : Killed in Action. No known grave. Commemorated : Theipval Memorial, Somme, France.. Reference : Pier and Face 1 C.
The Theipval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20th March 1918 and who have no known grave. Private Sidney Roberts was probably killed in action during the Battle of Bazentin, which included the capture of Longueval, Trones Wood and Ovillers (14th � 17th July 1916).
Sidney Roberts was both born and living in Maiden Newton at the time he enlisted at Dorchester.
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