Lieutenant Saul ("Sydney") Stern was an English officer of the British Army who died during First World War.
He was born c. 1899, at Whitechapel, the youngest son of Abraham and Fannie Stern, of Courland. His mother remarried, in 1909, to Albert Henry Sytner, an export merchant to South Africa.
Despite being below the age of 16, Stern enlisted on the outbreak of war in 1914, in the 9th Londons, and was dispatched to the Western Front in 1915. He fought at the Battle of Hill 60 and the Second Battle of Ypres, shortly after which he sustained a severe head wound. A recommendation for a commission soon followed, but promotion had to be deferred until his seventeenth birthday, upon which he transferred to the Middlesex Regiment, dated 6 December.[1][2]
In response to an appeal for officers in 1916, Stern volunteered for service in the East Africa theatre. He departed in November and died on 19 July 1917 while serving with the 3/3rd Battalion, The King's African Rifles, attached from the 8th Middlesex.[1]
He is buried in Dar es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Times (41451), Col F, p. 9: "Fallen Officers". 27 July 1917.
- ↑ The London Gazette (29401), p. 12432 (PDF), 10 December 1915. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
References[]
- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Stern, Sydney, cwgc.org. Retrieved 9 August 2013.