SCOTT, Sidney

Sidney Scott was the son of Mrs M. Chance of 53 The Dock, Lye. He worked in South Wales as a miner and volunteered in August 1914 for the Welsh Regiment. He joined the 18th Battalion in the 40th Division. They fought on the Western Front from 1916 in the last stage of the Somme and the follow-up in Spring 1917 to the Hindenburg Line. After the Battle of Cambrai they stayed facing the Line and expecting the great German attack in the Spring of 1918. After the opening barrage of the 21st March they were forced into retreat, suffering many casualties. Private Sidney Scott was seriously wounded in a shell burst and sent back to a Casualty Clearing Station where he died of wounds on the 24th March. He was 31 years of age and is buried in Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval, (I C 6) and commemorated on the Lye and Wollescote and Lye church Memorials.