MEAKIN

		Source
		CWGC	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents	Mrs. Meakin of Ashby			5	2
Parents	Mrs. Meakin				1
Where born	Needwood Manor, Rangemore, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire				1
When born	About 1894				6
Address	Park Street, lodging with Miss Freeman			5
Where educated	Uppingham Lower School				1
Where educated	Oakham				1
Spouse
Children
Employment Before Joining up	Clerk at Uttoxeter’s branch of Lloyds Bank for about 2½ years			5	2
	Clerk at Uttoxeter’s branch of Lloyds Bank				3
	Uttoxeter’s branch of Lloyds Bank			7	1
Pre-war service	Served with the 4^th North Staffordshire Regiment			4	2a, 3
When enlisted	Rejoined 4^th Bn, N. Staffs before 12^th August 1914			4	2a, 3
Where enlisted	Called-up and reported to Lichfield			4
Regiment	North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)	Yes	Yes	7	1, 2b
Unit	4^th Bn.	Yes	Yes		1
	1^st Bn			7	2
	Attached to 1^st Bn.		Yes	5	1, 2b
When gazetted	2^nd Lieutenant in 1911				1
When gazetted	Lieutenant in March 1913				1
Rank	Second Lieutenant			5
Rank	Lieutenant	Yes	Yes	5, 7	1, 2
Service Number
Date of Death	17 December 1914	Yes			1, 2
Date of Death	17 October 1915		Yes
Age at time of death	20			7	1
Where Killed or died	Near to Armentieres
How he died	Killed in Action – shot by a German sniper		Yes	5, 7
Location of Grave or Memorial	Chapelle-D'Armentieres Old Military Cemetery - Grave A.3.	Yes
Location of Grave or Memorial	Chapelle-D'Armentieres	Yes			1
Awards
Where commemorated	Uttoxeter Town War Memorial				2
Where commemorated	Lloyds Bank Memorial Album				1

Sidney was the sixth son in the family. He was a brother of Mrs. Ernest Manners of Burton-on-Trent. ^{[2 & 5]}He also had a brother, Walter Kendrick Meakin, who was also killed in the war. ^[3] See the end of this article for further details about Walter.

He was well-known in Burton in connection with the firm of Maltsters bearing the name Meakin. ^[5]

Before the war he was on the special reserve of officers of the 4^th North Staffordshire Regiment, so he was called-up on the outbreak of war ^{[2a & 3]} and attached to the 1^st North Staffordshire Regiment. ^[5]

He was killed in action near Armentieres; shot by a German sniper. ^{[5, 7]}

Shortly after his death, Private James Horne of the 1^st North Staffordshire Regiment wrote to a friend at Stone, saying ^[7]

“We are only 30 yards from the German trenches, and they shout for a Woodbine, and we shout ‘Come and fetch it’, but they won’t. We are having a few casualties. One is Lieutenant Meakin. He was looking at a sergeant who had been hit, when he, too, was shot.”.

His brother although not a resident of Uttoxeter was also killed. He is record on the following page.