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Sydney Robert FENN
1894 - 1918 (23 years)
Has 245 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Sydney Robert FENN Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 3 Oct 1894 Faversham, Kent, England 
- GRO ref: Fenn, Sidney Robert q4 1894 Faversham RD 2a 838; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Goatham
Actual date from his obit., which states he died the day before his 24th birthday.
Baptised 2 Nov 1894 St. Mary of Charity Church, Faversham, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 19 Feb 2022)
Gender Male Military Service to 1918 [1] Machine Gun Corps in WW1 - Sydney was a Corporal in the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 9th Coy.
He served until nearly the end of the war when with little more than a month of the war remaining he was killed.
He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 2 Oct 1918 Ypres Salient, Belgium [1] - An entry appeared for Sidney in the "Roll of Honour" column in The Faversham News (19 Oct 1918, p.4, col. 3):
"Corpl. S R Fenn, M.G.C.
Bereavement has befallen Mr and Mrs
Robert Fenn, of 9, Orchard Place, who on
Saturday last had the distressing new that
their eldest son, Corpl. Sidney Robert Fenn,
of the Machine Gun Corps, had been killed in
France. Corpl. Fenn, a young man of ex-
cellent character, was prior to the war in the
service of the Hon H A Milles-Lade at Nash
Court. For some time after War broke out
he was engaged on munitions at the Cotton
Powder Works but eventually he voluntarily
offered himself for military service and en-
listed in the London Scottish. Subsequent-
ly he was transferred to the Machine Gun
Corpts and was drafted to Frances some 18
months ago. It was only last month that he
came home on his first leave from the front.
He returned on September 23rd, and had
been back in the line only just over a week
when he was killed by a piece of shrapnel -
the day before his 24th birthday. An officer
speaks very highly of him in a letter of sym-
pathy to the parents. He says : "Your son
was the best n.c.o. I had in the Section, and
also a splendid soldier generally. His chums
in the Section, and myself, keenly feel his
loss. Corpl. Fenn was killed on the 2nd
October after taking part in the advance of
28th Sept. There is some slight consolation
in the fact that he died instantly and suffer-
ed no pain whatever." Mr and Mrs Fenn have
another son, Harold (formerly at Messrs
Holmes and Sons'), in the Royal Air Force.
He has been serving for about three years."
CWGC entry for Sydney Robert FENN
His mother was born a GoathamWar Memorial Aft 1918 Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium - CWGC details (Sydney is on the section Panel 154 to 159 and 163A)
Siblings2 brothers and 5 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Elijah FENN, b. Abt 1835, d. Dec Q 1889, Canterbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 54 years) (Grandfather) 
Anna Maria HALL, b. 17 Oct 1818, Seasalter, Kent, England, d. Mar Q 1904, Faversham Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age 85 years) (Great Grandmother) Person ID I6700 All | England: Kent Group (in Go(a)tham One-Name Study), All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , The descendants (and other halves) of Charles Goatham and Sybilla née Hunt, The descendants (and other halves) of George Goatham and Ann née Winch, The descendants (and other halves) of John Prior and Amy née Reynolds, The descendants (and other halves) of Richard Whitehead and Mary née Grigsby Last Modified 2 Nov 2022
Father Robert FENN, b. Jun Q 1866, Thorpe, Norfolk, England , d. Dec Q 1926, Faversham Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 60 years) Mother Nellie GOATHAM, b. Sep Q 1869, Faversham Reg Dist, Kent, England , d. 20 Sep 1919, 9, Orchard Place, Faversham, Kent, England (Age ~ 50 years) Married 21 Jul 1891 St. Mary’s Church, Kilburn, London, England - GRO ref: Goatham, Nellie to Fenn, Robert q3 1891 Hampstead RD 1a 1352
Both were described as of 149 Belsize Road when they married.
Witnesses were Nellie's parents, Amos and Emma Goatham
(I have copy of PR entry)
GRO online index checked, 1889-1913; no births of other children of this marriage found.
Family ID F3768 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- GRO ref: Fenn, Sidney Robert q4 1894 Faversham RD 2a 838; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Goatham
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Born - 3 Oct 1894 - Faversham, Kent, England 
Baptised - 2 Nov 1894 - St. Mary of Charity Church, Faversham, Kent, England 
Died - 2 Oct 1918 - Ypres Salient, Belgium 
War Memorial - Aft 1918 - Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
Sources - [S20] CWGC Website, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ((http://www.cwgc.org/ )), accessed 19 Aug 2013). (Reliability: 4).
entry for Sidney; this shows Sidney Robert FENN was the son of Robert and Nellie Fenn, of 9, Orchard Place, Faversham, Kent which confirms it was this Sidney Robert.