MIDLANE, Egbert Robert

Berks Cemetery Extension, BelgiumCredit: CWGC

Corporal Military Medal
3rd Battalion
Rifle Brigade

Egbert was born 1886 in Newport to William & Elizabeth MIDLANE. The 1901 & 1911 Census had the family living at West View, Carisbrooke.

Egbert was awarded the Military Medal &, aged 29, listed as Killed in Action on the 22nd of June 1916. He was originally buried close to where he fell at Rosenberg Chateau, however, Egbert’s body was later exhumed & reburied in 1920 within the Berks Cemetery Extension in Belgium, beneath a Commission Headstone, bearing the Family Inscription, chosen by his sister, “REST ON BELOVED THY WORK IS DONE THE BATTLE FOUGHT THE VICTORY WON”, alongside 876 of his First World War comrades.

Egbert is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough 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.