Hemmings Sidney Fusilier 4127779
Personnel Entry
Name Hemmings Sidney
Army number 4127779
Rank Fusilier
Decorations None known.
Date of birth Research suggests birth registered 1919 in Aston, Birmingham. Mother's maiden surname Cooke.
Age 24 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment - dates not known. Transferred to, or re-enlisted in, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served B.E.F.? Served Malaya. DIED 22/8/1943 at Sunkrae on the Burma-Siam border whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery W Company
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore when the force was surrendered.
Died/Killed in action DIED of Dysentery 22/8/1943 (Regimental records). Buried initially in Grave No. 2, Block B, Row 4, No. 2 Cemetery - Sunkrae. Re-interred December 1945 in Grave B3.H.3. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery. Headstone inscription reads:- "THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST". The reburial record does not show a date of death but Fus Hemmings is listed with other casualties in date order which would support a death date of 22/8/1943. CWGC records may have included an error in which that date is shown as 22/8/1945.
Home address Son of Thomas and Ethel Jane Hemmings of Small Heath, Birmingham. Father lived at 84, Marmsbury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham.
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