Sergeant 1140 Sidney Mark Cann BONFIELD

2nd Army Head Quarters Anti-Gas School, Royal Engineers

Died of wounds, Friday 6th April 1917 age 24

Buried Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. Grave I.E.8

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of Harry White and Polly Cockram Bonfield, 37 Coleshill Street, Athertsone

Brother of Pte Aubrey Bonfield

Links to Relevant Information

Other information:

1911 Census Coleshill Street, Atherstone with parents Harry and Polly and 4 brothers.

1901 Census Coleshill Street, Atherstone with parents and 3 brothers

Army records online at Find My Past

Probate granted to Harry White Bonfield 5th October 1917, £257 6s. 9d.

13th April 1917 Death reported in Atherstone News and Herald, and in Leicester Journal

Attended Atherstone Grammar School

Taught at Polesworth

Passed exams to be Bachelor of Science at Cheltenham College

Invented an improved wind gauge for use in the trenches