Sidney Carlton Sayers

In memoriam

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

23955 Private Sidney Carlton Sayers, was Killed in Action on the 4th.June 1917, Aged 33, while serving with the 7th.Battalion, The Royal Berkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas & Martha Sayers, husband of Clara Annie Sayers, of 8, Town Place, Eldon Terrace, Reading. Sidney was a native of Reading. In the 1901 Census Sidney (15) and employed at Huntley & Palmers Biscuit factory, was living with his family at 5, Warren Place, Reading. Father Thomas (63) worked as a 'Labourer at an Iron Foundry, mother Martha (57) was a 'Homemaker'. Sidney had five siblings, twins Arthur & Edward were 23, Graham was 19, Joseph 14 and Winifred 13. Both Sidney and Edward worked at the famous Huntley & Palmer biscuit factory in Reading who were a major employer locally. By the 1911 Census, Sidney now 26 and still at Huntley & Palmer, was living at 97 Great Knollys Street, Reading with his step brother, Walter Herbert Gibbens (38) a 'Night Watchman' with Reading Corporation, and his wife Mary Ann (36). Also at this address was a nephew, Frederick Gibbens (11) and Walters aunt, Elizabeth Rogers, a widow aged 59. Sidney married Clara Annie May in the 2nd.Qtr.of 1915. The official Battalion entry for the 4th.June reported two other ranks Killed, Sidney and 14473 Private William Henry Price, aged 33. They were buried next to each other in Janes Military Cemetery, a few miles to the north of Sarigol, exhumed and reburied, again side by side, in Sarigol sometime during 1921-22.

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