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Name: LOVEGROVE, Sydney Joseph (Capt.)
Nee: bro of Herbert Percival Lovegrove
Birth Date: 16.2.1885 Horfield, Bristol
Death Date: 14.3.1916 wounded at Latema Hill on active service, d. in hospital train near Kiu of gunshot wounds
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1916
Profession: Military - 1911 North Staffs. Regt.
Married: Helen Irene Carlyle Stevens b. 1887, d. 23 Apr 1951 Sway, Hants. (in 1923 she m. Harry Hesketh Smyth)
Book Reference: Gazette
War Service: Captain, KAR; North Staffs. Regt.
General Information:
Gazette - 22/3/16 - Obituary - Capt. S.J. Lovegrove - 3rd KAR who died on 14/3/16 from wounds received at Latema Hill. He arrived in the Protectorate in 1912 [more]
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for death
Nairobi South cemetery (war grave) Inscription: Captain / S J Lovegrove / King's African Rifles / 14th March 1916 age 31 until the day breaks / and the shadows flee away