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Sidney Herbert Greenaway was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, on 27 September 1882 and attested for the Royal Marines Light Infantry on 1 September 1902.
Drafted to the cruiser H.M.S. Pathfinder on 1 October 1913, Sidney was serving in her during the initial stages of the Great War and killed in action when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-21 off St. Abb’s Head in the Firth of Forth on 5 September 1914. Pathfinder sank within four minutes with the loss of nearly all hands, including 18 Royal Marines - the first ship to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired by a submarine.
Sidney is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
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