Sidney Thaler

Rifleman Sidney Oscar Thaler was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 3 August 1889,Roll of Honour - World War 1,croydononline.org. Retrieved 19 November 2015. on the Isle of Wight, the son of German-born Andreas and Selina Thaler (née Ashmore), of Holywell. Before the war, Thaler worked as an examiner for a railway mechanical engineering department.
Aged 26, Thaler died on 15 September 1916, during the Somme Offensive, while serving on the Western Front with the 18th (Service) Battalion (Arts & Crafts), The King's Royal Rifle Corps. A brother, Montague, had died in 1912 as a crewman on board the RMS Titanic.Montague Donald Thaler, encyclopedia-titanica.org. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
He is buried in Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Thaler, Sidney Oscar, cwgc.org. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
Category:1889 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Buried in France
Category:Rifleman