Sidney Goldberg

Private, Non Combatant Corps
Service number: 97002376
Died 6 Jan 1946
Buried East Ham (Marlow Road) Jewish Cemetery, United KIngdom
Age 28


Sidney was born on 15 September 1916 in Brighton, East Sussex to Poland born parents Lazarus, a ladies tailor, and Gertrude and he was the youngest of three boys. Gertrude died in 1927 and their father remarried the following year to Bessie Kutchinsky, and their daughter Edna was born in 1931.

In 1939, the family were living at 15 Twineham Green in Barnet, Hertfordshire and Lazarus was working as a dressmaker and Sidney was a dress cutter.

The NCC was re-formed during August 1940, just over a year after conscription was reintroduced. The corps was composed of conscripted men who had been registered as non-combatants by tribunals. Unlike in the First World War, there were also enlisted members of the NCC who had been deemed not physically competent for combatant service. This gave the Corps less of a stigma than it had had twenty five years earlier.

Sidney died at Nottingham City hospital and his death certificate states that the cause of death was: Myocardial Failure and Broncho Pneumonia.