Private Sydney Frederick Hutton

In Memory of

Private Sydney Frederick Hutton

PS/10224, 8th Bn., Royal Fusiliers

who died near Guedecourt
on 7th October 1916


Remembered with honour

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

The Roll of Honour records:  

Rev. S. F. Hutton.

HUTTON, SYDNEY FREDERiCK, BA.. Private, No. 10224, 8th Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), only son of the Rev. Frederick Robert Chapman Hutton, M.A. Rector of Ashton­under-Lyne, Co. Lancaster, by his wife, Maria Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Henry Mop, of Sydney, Australia; Born at Roade, Northants, 10th September 1884; educated at Sedbergh, and in Germany; originally entered the business of James F. Hutton Co., Shippers, Manchester, but after some years with them went to new College Oxford, taking Second Class Theological Honours, and was ordained in September 1913, to the curacy of Swinton Parish church, Manchester. On the outbreak of war, having applied unsuccessfully for a chaplaincy at the Front, he enlisted as a Private in the Royal Fusiliers on 27th January 1916; went to France in August, and was killed in action 7th October 1916 on the Somme battle-front. Buried near Flers. He was assisting a wounded comrade when a piece of shrapnel shell killed him. On several occasions he acted as Voluntary Chaplain, the last occasion being on the Sunday before his death, when his service was attended by about 300 men. His Commanding Officer wrote : "I greatly admired your son, he was remarkably brave and always cheerful. He is a great loss to thee company and his death is felt very keenly by his comrades, to whom he was of great assistance.” Unmarried.