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Age-20

48, Malvern Road, Dalston

Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France

40th Division, including 20th Middlesex of 121 Brigade, arrived in France in May 1916 and after a period of trench instruction, took over front line duties at Loos, a mining village on the outskirts of Lens where they stayed throughout the summer and autumn.

On 13th October, 1916, 20th Middlesex were relieved from the front line and moved back to billets in the village of Mazingarbe. From here they sent out work parties to the front line each night and it was while engaged on one of these on 15th October that Sidney Lindsell and two other men from 20th Middlesex were killed when the enemy blew an unexpected mine near the Seaforth Craters