He was the only child of Sir Thomas Sidey, a Dunedin Member of Parliament, cabinet minister and lawyer.

In World War II he was a Major in the New Zealand Army in the Pacific.

[1] He married Beryl Thomas in 1933; they had one son (Dr. Tom Sidey, 1934–2016) and one daughter.

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