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This is Sidney Alfred Nathaniel Shafto BARTHROPP, an ex-Cadet of Cambridge UOTC, Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex on 15th August 1914. He was born at Kensington Court on 25 March 1892, the son of Major Alfred Shafto Barthropp (Suffolk Regiment and later a member of the Stock Exchange) [d. 16 Feb 1935, aged 82] and Ellen Ada Wentworth Stanley of Winchester [d. 19 Jan 1956, aged 93]. The family home during his youth was at Newport House on the High Street in Newport, near Saffron Walden, Essex. After school at Winchester and Trinity Cambridge he went on to study Holy Orders at the Bishop's Hostel, Farnham, (his paternal grandfather was a clergyman). On the outbreak of war he joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion of the Royal Sussex at Dover before being attached to the 2nd Battalion in France. He was killed in action (during a German attack near the brickstacks at Cuinchy) after only being with the Battalion a fortnight. He was buried in the Cuinchy communal cemetery. Sidney had one sibling, an elder sister, Edith, b. 1887, five years older than him. The German attack on 1st Division at the Cuinchy, between Bethune and La Bassee, on 29th January 1915, was launched on the Kaiser's birthday and was principally beaten off by 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex. Acting Company Sergeant Major Bernard Norris Butcher of the 2nd Royal Sussex won a Distinguished Conduct Medal (often regarded as a 'near miss' for a Victoria Cross) on 29th January for his leadership in the defence of 'The Keep' feature amongst the brickstacks. //

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C........ Street, the Rocks.

I wonder if some of the same folk are in this one, slightly to the right in August 1901 - See also - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/5859/ And also - collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/picturerecord.jsp?...

And the reverse view -

Streetview didn't go up Cambridge Street until recently - I think this is the right place - FUGLY! - www.google.com.au/maps/@-33.8601205,151.2076351,3a,75y,32...

Yes, right place looking north. One really has to work at getting Cambridge Street at all pretty nowadays.

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He was born in Kensington on the 30th of November 1890, the son of Sidney Herbert Nelson, engineer, of Barton Mill House, Canterbury.

He was educated at prep school in St Leonards and at the King's School Canterbury from September 1904 to July 1909, gaining a Junior Scholarship in December 1905 and a Senior Scholarship in July 1908.

On leaving school he went on to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, on a Parker Exhibition where he gained a 3rd Class Classical Tripos in 1911 and a 3rd Class History Tripos in 1912.

He then left for India to work for the Bank of Bengal in Calcutta.

On the outbreak of war he enlisted as a trooper in the Calcutta Light Horse, later obtaining a commission in the Indian Frontier Force, being first attached to the 33rd Punjabis and then to the 2nd battalion of the 8th Gurkha Rifles, seeing active service on the Indian Frontier as well as in France and Mesopotamia.

He was attached to the 1st Battalion of his regiment and was hit a few miles north of Baghdad, dying a few hours later.

Baptised 7th Jan 1891 at St Barnabas, Kensington, son of Sidney Herbert and Matilda Constance Nelson. His baptism record notes that he was born at 15 Addison Gardens maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf... on 30th Nov 1890 and that his father was an Engineer.

At the time of the 1891 census the Nelsons were visitors at The Elms, Ryden Road, Walton on Thames, Surrey. Sidney was a Sawmill Engineer and Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Ernest had one older brother, Thomas S Nelson aged one. (Thomas Sidney Nelson was a doctor in the RAMC who survived the war).

By 1901 there were 3 sisters: Joyce, Phyllis and Olive. Ernest and his brother must have been away at boarding school. The family were living at Mill Cottage in Goring, Oxfordshire (this attractive property still exists maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=the+mill+cottage,+lock+a...) and Sidney described as Living on Own Means. They employed a Cook and a Nurse.

In 1911 the family was living at Barton Mill House, Sturry Road, Canterbury, Kent and Ernest was an Undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Sidney and Matilda had been married for 22 years and of their 6 children 1 had died. Sidney Herbert described himself as Gentleman and the family employed a Cook.

Ernest was 'of Barton Mill House' when probate was granted to his father on 1 Nov 1917. Effects £1450.

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