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Grdsm. Sydney Henry Eyden
British Army 5th Btn. Coldstream Guards
(d.12th Aug 1944)
Sydney Eyden was born in 1915 in Christchurch, Dorset. He was a carpenter by trade.
In 1938, he married Marjorie Kate Sprackland in Christchurch. He enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in 1939. His son Anthony was born in the spring of 1944. He possibly never saw his son, as Sydney was killed in action on 12th of August 1944. He is buried in Bayeux War Cemetery, Normandy.