Red Lion Inn, Comberton OS map 1901
Red Lion, Comberton
History of the Red Lion, Comberton
1911 Red Lion Inn
Arthur Williamson, 57, publican and police pensioner, b Somersham
Annie, 54, b Gloucs
Charles Percy, 20, carpenter, b Kent
Sydney [sic] George, 12, b Kent
Arthur was also the Police Commissioner in the village. Percy enlisted in the Cambridge Volunteer Battalion in 1914 with Percy Harper and Alfred Day from the village. All three lied abut their age. Sidney would have been only 15. His mother died the following year.
Sidney died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. he would probably have been 17.
https://great-war.ccan.co.uk/content/catalogue_item/williamson-sidney-george-private-15753-11th-suffolks-died-1st-july-1916-comberton
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