Today 1917 Gunner Sydney Allcock 8673 19th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery of Unity Street was killed in action in the Ypres area of Belgium during the third Ypres Campaign Battle of Passchendaele.
He is buried in Canada Farm Cemetery along with 906 other British and Canadian Great War soldiers. The cemetery took its name from a farmhouse used as a dressing
station during the 1917 Allied offensive on this front. Most of the
burials are of men who died at the dressing station between June and
October 1917.
Sydney Allock was born in Newport, Isle of Wight but moved to Ireland with his family in the late 1800's. By the time he came to signing up for the war effort in 1915 he was living in 16 Unity Street Carrickfergus. He was well known around the town and part of the congregation at St Nicholas Church. News of his death in 1917 was reported with great sadness in the Carrickfergus Advertiser noting that "great lose is felt with at the death of Gunner S Allock... he was well known to many locally and will be sadly missed".
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| CANADA FARM CEMETERY – Belgium - III. E. 3. |
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| Confirmation of Sydney's death in the Belfast Telegraph 1917 |
NAME;
Allcock, Sydney
RANK;
Gunner
SERV.
NO; 8673
UNIT/SERVICE;
Royal Garrison Artillery
REGIMENT;
19th Heavy Bty.
BORN;
Newport, Isle of Wight
LIVED;
Unity Street,
Carrickfergus
ENLISTED;
Carrickfergus
FATE;
Killed in Action – France
and Flanders 19th October 1917 aged
29
CEMETERY; CANADA FARM CEMETERY – Belgium - III. E. 3.
CHURCH; St Nicholas Church of Ireland, Carrickfergus
MEMORIAL;
REMARKS;
Son of Richard and Jessie Allcock, of Church View, Tuam, Co. Galway
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