Selected Biography

Bedford, Sidney Francis – Born: Kelvedon, Essex on 8.4.1897.[1]  Parents: Moses Bedford (Railway Stationmaster at Long Melford) and Naomi [née Hills].  Family Connections: Brother to Percy John Bedford [b1900].  Home: Railway Station, Long Melford (1901), 2 Queens Down Road, Clapton, London (1911), 65 Victoria Road, Diss, Norfolk [1929],[2] 3 Waveney Road, Diss (1939).  Occupation: Self-employed Motor Engineer (1939).  Married: Ivy Mary Rodwell Copping in 1932.  Service Record: Sidney was conscripted as Pte.M/293491 with a Mechanical Transport Company of the Army Service Corps during the First World War.[3]  Died: Diss, Norfolk on 2.11.1967.

Notes – [1] Date of birth taken from the 1939 Register for Diss.  [2] Address for a court case see Diss Express 15.11.1929. [3] Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].