Sidney Gilbert Gray

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Sidney Gilbert Gray was born in Ashmore, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 25th April 1898, the son of Thomas Gray and Alice Lavinia Gray (née Brickell).  He lived his early life in Halfpenny Lane, Ashmore and, from 1905, at Pyle Oak Cottage, Scotts Hill, Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire.  He enlisted with the Royal Field Artillery as a Gunner (Service No. 148433).  He served in France and Flanders as a signaller with the 153rd Brigade where was wounded in action.  He died from the wounds on 31st May 1918 and was buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Near Boulogne, Pas de Calais, France, (Grave ref. XI. G. 4A).  (His parents were by then residing in Eastleigh, Hampshire, and, by 1921, in Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, but neither of the local War Memorials carry names.)