FISK, Stanford James

Credit: CWGC

Rifleman

1st/8th Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles

Hampshire Regiment

Stanford was 1893 in Carisbrooke to Robert & Jessie (nee LINFIELD) FISK who were living at 'Loretto', Chillerton Road in Newport around the time of Stanford's death.

Stanford had served at Gallipoli as a Lewis Gunner but was Killed in Action, aged 24, on the 2nd of November 1917 in Palestine & originally buried by his comrades close to where he fell. However, over the course of the War his grave was lost & so Stanford is commemorated by the Commission on the Jerusalem Memorial to The Missing together with 3,318 of his missing First World War comrades.

Stanford in also remembered on the Carisbrooke & IW Rifles War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.