GINGER, Sidney Charles

7th Field Ambulance Cemetery, Gallipoli TurkeyCredit: Bernie Wood

Rifleman
B Company 1st/8th Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles
Hampshire Regiment

Sidney was born 1895 in Carisbrooke to William James & Emma (nee GREEN) GINGER of Clatterford Road, Carisbrooke.

Sidney was Killed in Action, aged 19, on the 9th of October 1915 & buried in Section I Row C Grave 47 at the 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery in Gallipoli, Turkey. Sidney rests beneath a Commission Pedestal Marker alongside 639 of his First World War comrades, of whom 276 remain unidentified.

Sidney is 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.