SANGER, Albert Edward Victor

Credit: CWGC

Lance Corporal

1st/8th Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles

Hampshire Regiment

Albert was born on the 21st of January 1892 in Carisbrooke to Joseph & Elizabeth (nee HINTON) SANGER. He married Amy Kate TROWBRIDGE & lived at 12 Hearn Street in Newport. Albert had previously lived at 7 Trafalgar Road & also 4 Chapel Street, both also in Newport.

Albert, aged 25, was Killed in Action on the 19th of April 1917, & buried in Section XX Row G Grave 7 in the Gaza War Cemetery, beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “GOD GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP”, alongside 3,217 of his comrades, 781 of whom remain unidentified.

Albert is also remembered on the Newport Borough & 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.