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Sidney Arthur
CLARIDGE
Royal Navy
Died On:
Aged:
22 August 1916
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Sidney Claridge was born on 3 February 1897 at Lambeth, the son of Richard and Rose Claridge of Oxford. Before joining the Royal Navy on 16 May 1913 at HMS GANGES, he was a shop assistant. After training at HMS IMPREGNABLE and HMS VERNON he served in the cruiser HMS TOPAZE and the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES.
In early 1915 he did his submarine training at HMS DOLPHIN before joining HMS E16 in March 1915. He died in the sinking of HMS E16 in the North Sea on 22 August 1916 and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial and the war memorial at Oakley, Buckinghamshire.
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