When George Sidney Or Sydney Rear was born on 29 October 1910, in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John James Rear, was 25 and his mother, Hilda Ellen Anderson, was 21. He married Alice Rebecca Beadsworth in 1931. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died about 1979, at the age of 69.