Notes
The Roll lists his address as 21 Milton Street. It misrecorded his place of death as "Kortevh".
(CWGC records that Private S H Murthwaite, regimental number 325168, died on 27/5/1918 having served in 1st/5th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), and is buried in grave B.36 at Kortrijk (St Jan) Communal Cemetery in Belgium, having been reinterred after the War. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Sidney Herbert Murthwaite was a native of Kentish Town who enlisted in Peterborough, and that prior to joining the West Yorkshire Regiment, he had served in the Hunts Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 1915. The Medal Rolls record that he served in the 18th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment before transferring to the 1/5th Battalion. The Army Registers of Soldiers Effects record that Sidney's death at Kortrijk was officially accepted as having occurred on 27/5/1918; his mother Harriet was his legatee. Documents held in the International Red Cross' Prisoners of the First World War archive record that Sidney died at a field hospital in Kortryk on 27/5/1918, from a gunshot wound to his chest. The documents recorded his date of birth as 12/9/1898, and that his next of kin was Frederick Murthwaite. Sidney's birth was actually registered in St Pancras District in 1897. On the 1901 census he had been living with his parents Frederick and Harriet at Clarence Road, Regent's Park, St Pancras. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 35 Priory Road, Stamford).