Private Sydney Raymond Creighton

Army Number: 103324 (formerly 22411 Wiltshire Regiment and 11080 Bedfordshire Regiment)

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Swindon, Wiltshire. Son of Fred and Lilly Creighton, of South Street, Broad Chalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire. He was a Baker prior to enlisting on 11th November 1915 at Salisbury. He went to France 4th October 1916 with the Wiltshire Regiment and was sent back to England, being under-age for overseas service 24th February 1917. He was transferred to the 2/5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment 17th March 1917. He returned to France 3rd April 1918 and was transferred to the 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment 4th April 1918. He received gunshot wounds to his left hand and right knee 14th October 1918 and died of wounds in the 3rd Canadian Hospital Boulogne, France 30th January 1919, aged 19.

Buried: Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France. Plot 13. Row B. Grave 21.

Private Sydney Raymond Creighton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Broad Chalke War Memorial, Wiltshire.