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- VIPOND
- SJ
- SIDNEY JAMES
- Gateshead
- Durham, England
- Son of James and Jane Ann Vipond, of Chelmsford, Essex.
- Chelmsford School
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WAR DIARY : 15 Apr 1916 - Ijser Canal Bank near Ieper Relieved in Camp "N" by 14th Durham Light Infantry. Entrained at 8pm POPERINGHE and detrain at ASYLUM YPRES and relieved 11th K.R.R. on YSER CANAL BANK between bridges No.2 and 4.
16 Apr 1916 - trenches around Willows near Ieper Relieved 10th Rifle Brigade in left section 16IB Sector. Hd.Qrs & C Coy LA BELLE ALLIANCE A Coy S.18.a., B17, B16 and S16b. B Coy 2 platoon Willows, 2 platoon Willow Walk, D Coy 2 platoon Willows 2 platoon D20 D21.
17 Apr 1916 In trenches as above - Wounded Lt.Col.H.C.Jackson [Henry Cholmondeley JACKSON] & 1 O.R.
18 Apr 1916 In trenches as above - Killed 1 O.R.
19 Apr 1916 In trenches as above - Wounded 2 O.R.
20 Apr 1916 - Ijser Canal Bank In trenches as above - *Killed - Capt Quilter, 2Lt Cartwright, 2Lt.McMichael. Wounded 2Lt Vipond, 2Lt Player, 2Lt Charles [William Eugene CHARLES]. Missing 2Lt Squier. O.Ranks - Killed 32, Missing believed Killed 97, Wounded 65 Relieved by 2/York and Lancaster Regt. - Battalion moved back in support in dugouts on YSER CANAL - *On night 19/20 Apl. after 2 hours heavy bombardment Germans attacked and gained a footing in trenches D20, WILLOW WALK and S18a - D21, B17a and B16 still held by battalion and line VICARS LANE - CLIFFORD TOWER - GANTHORPE ROAD strengthened and reinforced.
Military service
- 9 September 1914
- Second Lieutenant
- 8th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment
- 16th Brigade
- 6th Division
- B.E.F.
- Enlisted as Private 262 in the 7th Royal Fusiliers; commissioned into the 8th Bn. of the Bedfordshire Rgt. on 26 January 1915; to France 30 August 1915
Death
- 19 April; Yser Canal Bank
- Shrapnel wounds in the abdomen, died at 4.45 p.m. in n°10 CCS
- 20 April 1916
- 24
- V - A - 21
- LA BRIQUE MILITARY CEMETERY No.2 ; MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY ; ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
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