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VC693   Sidney William Ware

BORN   11 November 1891

DIED   16 April 1916   AGE   24

VC Won   6 April 1916   AGE   24

Place VC Won   Sanna-I-Yat, Mesopotamia, now Iraq

War/Campaign   First World War 1916

Name   Sidney William Ware   No.   920   POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   693   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Seaforth Highlanders, 1st Battalion

Later   Highlanders

Now   4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland

Rank VC Won   Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Whatcombe Winterbourne, Whitechurch Parish, Milton Abbas, Dorset, England

Place Of Death   Rawalpindi Hospital, near Basra, Iraq

Buried/Location Ashes   Amara War Cemetery, 150 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC) Removed   Plot/Grave no.   Plot VI, Row H, Grave 1

Gazetted   26 September 1916

VC Presented   28 February 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, William Uriah and Maud

Memorials

Named on wall at Amara War Cemetery, 150 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq

P  Named on wooden war memorial, St Peters Church, Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire

P  Named on brass war memorial, St Peters Church, Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire

By The Way…

In 1933 all headstones removed due to deterioration from the salt in the soil, later all men known to have been buried in the cemetery were commemorated on a wall

VC Held By

Queen's Own Highlanders (Cameroons and Seaforths) Regimental Museum, Fort George, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland

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