SIDNEY CHARLES BUGG
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG”: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Born: 1903, Ipswich.
Died: 30th May 1943; age: 40; died of Cholera at Sonkurai No. 2 Camp as a Japanese PoW – Thailand-Burma Railway.
Captured: 15th February 1942 – Fall of Singapore.
Transferred overland to Camps 24th April 1943 – Party F – 400 men.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 5828171.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion.
The body was originally buried at Sonkurai Cemetery, Block A, Grave 16. In December 1945, the body was exhumed, identified, and re-buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Burma.
Grave Reference:
B3.P.6.
Myanmar.
Image courtesy of Kevin Knights.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Harry & Annie Bugg; husband of Alice Bugg, of Felixstowe, Suffolk.
CENSUS
1911 32, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Sidney was 7 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Henry Bugg, 50, a Mill Labourer, born Burgh, Suffolk.
Annie Elizabeth Bugg (nee East), 49, born Ipswich.
Edith Ethel Bugg, 21, a Factory Hand, born Ipswich.
Arthur Alfred Bugg, 18, a Foundry Labourer, born Ipswich.
Frederick Thomas Bugg, 16, a Butcher, born Ipswich.
Frank Walter Bugg, 13, born Ipswich.
Percy Oliver Bugg, 11, born Ipswich.
1921 32, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Sidney was 18 years & 1 month old and employed as a Porter for Frederick Fish & Son – Drapers, of Tavern Street, Ipswich. He lived with his parents and brothers.
Harry Bugg, 60 years & 8 months old, a Miller for Cranfield Bros – Millers of St. Peter’s, Ipswich.
Annie Bugg, 59 years & 7 months old, Home Duties.
Frank Bugg, 23 years & 6 months old, a Miller for Cranfield Bros – Millers of St. Peter’s, Ipswich.
Percy Bugg, 21 years & 4 months old, a Miller for Cranfield Bros – Millers of St. Peter’s, Ipswich.
Sidney’s father, Harry Bugg, died 1935, Ipswich.
In 1929, Ipswich, Sidney married Alice Sarah Dreher, born May 1905, Ipswich, of 97, Derby Road, Ipswich – daughter of William Thomas Dreher, a master cooper and Alice Mary Ann Dreher (nee Cook-Abbott).
Alice and Sarah had one son:
Peter Brian Bugg, born 1932, Ipswich.
On the 1939 Register, Sidney’s wife, Alice and their son Peter lived with his mother, Annie Bugg, at her home – 32, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Sidney is also remembered on the war memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich.
Sidney lost two brothers in the First World War.
Arthur Alfred Bugg died as a POW, on the 25th November 1914, aged 22. He was a Private, service number: 8311, of the 2nd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment. Arthur was laid to rest at Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Germany.
And Frederick Thomas Bugg died of wounds on the 27th July 1918, aged 23. He was a Sergeant, service number 23382, of the Machine Gun Corps. He was laid to rest at Bac-Du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval, Pas de Calais, France.
Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion
The Battalions were attached to the 18th East Anglian Division.
15 February 1942: After the fall of Singapore, approximately 620 of the Battalions were taken POW and later mostly died on the Burma-Thailand Railway.
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