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Sydney Robert Trask

Forename: Sydney Robert

Surname: Trask

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment

Institution: Cheltenham Training College


Sydney Robert Trask was a Cheltenham Training College student from 1912 – 1914. He was the son of Robert Arthur and Annie Louisa of 164 Sherrard Road, Forest Gate, Essex. Sydney had previously attended school in Greenwich.

He was a Second Lieutenant in the 10th Battalion attached to the 7th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, and died on 9 August 1916, age 22. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme region of France, having no known grave.