Colin Boyd has provided the following:
Fred was born on 2nd April 1882. He was working as a miner living with his wife Elizabeth at 2nd Square, Earsdon when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on 2nd November 1914.
He joined the Anson Battalion on 27th February 1915 and was invalided to the UK from Gallipoli on 25th January 1916 suffering from Malaria.
Fred rejoined the Anson Battalion in France on 23rd February 1917 and was hospitalised on 3rd May 1917 with Quinsey.
Fred rejoined the Anson Battalion again on 3rd June 1917 and was posted as missing assumed killed in action on 26th October 1917.
Fred Sidell is remembered in Earsdon on E3.01, E3.02 and E3.03 and in Backworth on B1.03 page 6
