IBBETSON, Frank Horace

Vimy Ridge Memorial, FranceCredit: CWGC

Private
50th Battalion
Canadian Infantry

Frank was born on the 6th of February 1890 in Newport & emigrated to Canada. It’s believed his parents were living in Ryde.

Frank, aged 26, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 10th of April 1917. His body was never found or identified & so Frank is commemorated by the Commission upon the Vimy Memorial to The Missing in France together with 11,232 of his Canadian First World War comrades.

Frank is also remembered on the Canadian National, IW County & Ryde 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.