In Memory of SYDNEY WALTER DOWNER Private 240888 ”B” Coy. 1St/5th Bn. Welsh Regiment who died on Monday 26th March 1917. Age 23
In the 1901 he is recorded as 8 years old and the son of Albert James & Helena DOWNER who are living in a cottage near the vicarage (now Hyde House) and was 8 years old. His father was working at the Schultze Gunpowder Company as a labourer.
Commemorative Information
JERUSALEM MEMORIAL, Israel. Panels 30 to 32.
The memorial stands in Jerusalem War Cemetery and is at the north end of the Mount of Olives. It commemorates over 3,000 soldiers of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa who fell in Egypt or Palestine and have no known grave.
Source – Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Notes
1/5th Bn. Welsh Reg. were Territorials. They were in Britain until July 1915, when they were posted to Gallipoli as part of 53rd Division, landing at Suvla Bay on 9th August 1915. They left Gallipoli in December and spent the remainder of the war in Palestine/Middle East as part of the ‘Egyptian Expeditionary Force’.
Source – work done by Carole Standeven