Sydney Styles

This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11

(Sydney Styles)

(Styles, Sydney)

Service no 18229

Private, Grenadier Guards, 1st Battalion

Died 20 March1916

Remembered at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium and at St Mark's Church, London SE11

Sydney's two brothers, Henry Alfred Styles and William Daniel Styles, are also on the memorial (and on the War Shrine). Sydney and William both died at Ypres on 20 March 1916, while serving in the Grenadier Guards, 1st Battalion. Henry Styles committed suicide in May 1916.

Census information for the Styles family

De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918STYLES, SYDNEY, Private, The Grenadier Guards, s. of (-) Styles, by his wife (-) (39, St. Mark's Road, Camberwell New Road, London, S.E.): and brother to Private H. A. Styles and Private W. D. Styles (q.v.); b. Stockwell, London, S.W.; educ. there; enlisted in Aug 1914, after the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near Ypres in Feb. 1916. Buried in the Military Cemetery there; unm.

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