Sidney Brock Cleave

Port Coquitlam honour roll

Sidney Brock Cleave  131^st Battalion. 791095   Signed his attestation papers on the 25^th of April 1916 at Vancouver, B.C. Job: bushman, logger. Living in Port Coquitlam. Sidney was born on the 27^th of January 1872, actually 1869  at Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devonshire, England.  Active military service: 3 years with the Devon Yeomanry.  Married to Anna “Annie” Sophia Wismer,(1886 – 1953 )  Sidney served in France for one year, then he was classed as unfit, because of being overage, then sent to England in 1917 then served with the 1^st Canadian labour battalion. He immigrated to Canada in the early 1900’s. 
Sons: Stanley Brock Cleave,(1927 - 1999)
John L. Cleave,
Lloyd James Cleave,(1922 - 1951)
Daughter: Blanche Maria Cleave; Blanche Maria Plummer,(1912 - 1992)
 Sidney Brock Cleave died in the Royal Columbian hospital, New Westminster, B.C. on the 24^th of January 1950, he is buried in the Maple ridge cemetery.  He lived along Mitchell Road in Maple Ridge, making a living at mixed farming.

 

 No. 15 Platoon

( Photo from 131st Battalion 1916 )

Top Row: William John Reeves, Henry Ashley Jennings, Thomas Dickinson, Alfred Ralph Solloway, Charlie Strand, George Royle, Albert William Buckett, Edward Lake, Isaac Simpson Robbie, Francis James Robertson, Joseph Eugene Blais.

Second Row: William John Theodore Ayling, Duncan Rodman, James John O'Donnell, William Ross, L. Paul, Clarence Cecil Clarke, Sidney Cleave, Alfred Bert Mouldey, Cecil Henry Smith, Major Forest Weeks, Robert Edward Mundon, John Bruce.

Third Row: Roland Roy Abbott, L.H. Wadlund, Ernest Hide, Harry Arthur Aves, John Henry McCormick, J. Reid, G.H. Nicholls, John Charles McInnes, Frank Johncock, B.L. Davis, R. Thoreson, C. Nicholls.
Fourth Row: N.A. Craig, G. Johnson, D. McLeod, J. Clarke, J.A. Melton, J. Brown, Harold Thomas Routley, J. Edwards, Alphonse Joseph Angelo, A. McIntyre.

Front Row: Lance-Corporal Thomas Mars, Corporal Andrew Fletcher Hill Moore, Company Sergeant Major Richard Arthur Henderson, Lieutenant Ronald O'Hanley, Company Quartermaster Sergeant L.G. Rayner, Sergeant William Thomas House, Corporal Leonard William Hookham, Drummer Stanley Cooke Ballard.