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Name: LOVEGROVE, Sydney Joseph (Capt.)
Photo Source: East African Standard 18 Mar 1916
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
East African Standard 16 Mar 1916 He was born in 1886. Obtained his commission in 1906 in the second battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment, with whom he proceeded to India, seeing a considerable amount of service on the Northern Frontier. From the North Staffordshire, he was seconded to the 3rd KAR during 1912, and with this regiment he spent two and a half years in Jubaland. Just prior to the declaration of war he was in Nairobi waiting to go on leave, but was sent down to Voi to put that place in a state of defence. At the outbreak of war he immediately took the field and, up to the time of his death, he had fought in 4 actions, namely at Tsavo, Mzima, Jasin and Bukoba. He had only recently been married and was well known in Nairobi.