No.T/92917, Corporal, Sydney Walter CORNWELL
Aged 25
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Sidney Cornwell was born in Isleham in 1918 (Newmarket Q2-1918 3B:712) son of Lewis and Susan Elizabeth CORNWELL (née AUDUS).
He attended Soham Grammar School from 1929 to 1934
Sidney in civilian records, Sydney in military records In the 1939 register the family were at Sun Street, Isleham. Father Lewis [6-12-1881] market gardener; mother Susan E [25-7-1887; brothers Benjamin Charles [3-1-1912] farm labourer/horseman and Hedley K [28-11-191] farm labourer/gardener; sister Audrey R [8-5-1929] later CRISP. No closed records. He married Bertha Beatrice JERMEY in 1941 (Norwich Outer Q3-1941 4B:287) later of Tilney All Saints, Norfolk. |
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Being in a supply unit there is little chance of discovering where exactly Sydney was killed. Even finding the whereabouts of 57th Brigade has proved impossible. The fighting in North Africa had ended some months earlier |
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