POWELL, Tom

Helles Memorial, Gallipoli TurkeyCredit: CWGC

Private
2nd Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Tom was born 1893 in Newport to John & Victoria Louise (nee HUNT) POWELL who were living at ‘Sunny Bank’, St. Paul’s Avenue in Shanklin around the time of Tom’s death. In 1901 the family were living at 3 Fairlee Cottages, Fairlee Road in Newport, before moving to Shanklin.

Tom had been wounded previously when he landed in Gallipoli, but was, aged 22, listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 4th of June 1915. His body was never found or identified & so Tom is commemorated by the Commission on the Helles Memorial to The Missing in Gallipoli Turkey together with 20,961 of his First World War comrades.

Tom is also remembered on the County & Shanklin 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.