Inscription
204545 PRIVATE
S R SNELL
ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS
26TH SEPTEMBER 1917 AGE 28
†
GOD'S WILL BE DONE
REST IN PEACE
DEEPLY MOURNED BY
MOLLY & PHIL
Further Information
Sydney Robert Snell
Son of Richard Snell and Elizabeth Snell (née Burrows) of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Born : 1888, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Married : 1915, Mary Ann Gilbert, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Census Information :
1891 : Richard and Elizabeth Snell, with their children including Sydney aged 2, are at Newton on Trent, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Richard Snell is a Farm Bailiff.
1901 : Richard and Elizabeth Snell, with their children including Sydney aged 12, are at Kettlethorpe, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Richard Snell is a Foreman on Farm.
1911 : Sydney Snell, aged 22, is a Footman, to Lord Deramore, at Heslington Hall, Yorkshire.
CWGC record ...
Not commemorated on any Isle of Wight Memorials :
Included here because his widow is listed as having a Ventnor address on the CWGC record. Mary Ann Snell
remarried in 1921, Charles L Wilkinson, in Darlington.
The headstone dedication of 'MOLLY & PHIL' presumably refers to his wife Mary Ann as Molly, and his daughter Phyllis (b. 1916) as Phil.
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