East London Cemetery

Killed, along with at least 68 others, in a TNT explosion at the Brunner Mond company factory at Silvertown, East London, aged 26 years. His grave is unmarked.

 

The memorial nestled under the Docklands Light Railway in Silvertown, the west face of the memorial dedicated to the Brunner Mond Company employees who lost their lives on 19th January 1917.

In 2017 it was relocated to a small park in the Royal Wharf development, closer to the river

Silvertown War Memorial, East London.

Sidney Joseph Benstead
Civilian munitions worker at Brunner Mond & Co., London
09/01/1917

Son of William & Julia (Guernsey born) Benstead. Late of the Bouet, St. Peter Port and then East London. Sidney lived at 28 Liddon Road, Silvertown, London.