Person:Sidney Rapsey (1)

1901 - With parents and 3 siblings at 30 Mabel St, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Sidney RAPSEY, aged 2, born at Motherwell, Lanarkshire.

1911 - With parents, 3 siblings and paternal uncle at 89 Eaton Rd Brynhyfryd, Swansea, Glamorgan. Sidney John RAPSEY, aged 12, school, born at Motherwell, Lanarkshire.

1916 - Enlisted as an Army Reservist on 23 November.

1918 - British Army WW1 Pension Records - Record of Service Paper & Medical History: Sydney John RAPSEY, of 159 Pentreharne Toad, Landore, Swansea, steelworker, aged 19 years 5 months, wanting to join Cameronian Highlanders, signed 3 June at Cardiff. Accepted into the Scots Guards on 4 June. Height: 5 feet 7 inches, girth when fully expanded: 37 inches, range of expansion: 2 inches, weight: 148 lbs, eyes: grey, hair: light brown, complexion: fair, physical development: good, flatfooted, no upper teeth. Next of kin: Frances Ann RAPSEY, mother, of 159 Pontretreharne Rd, Landore. Hospitalised for scabies at Holborn Military Hospital Western Rd Mitcham, for scabies, from 13 Aug to 26 Aug. Married to Mary Ellen LYNN, spinster, at St Mark's Church, Swansea, on 30/9/1918.

1919 - Record of Service Paper: Qualified as shoeing smith on 31/10.

1.   General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   11a / 1063, Mar Qtr 1938.

   Swansea.