SIBBICK, Harry Froude

Credit: CWGC

Private

2nd Battalion

Hampshire Regiment

Harry was born 1890 in Bowcombe, Carisbrooke to Oliver & Susan (nee FROUD) SIBBICK who were living in Idlecombe, Carisbrooke around the time of Harry’s death.

Harry, aged 27, was Killed in Action on the 2nd of July 1915 & buried by his comrades close to where he fell. However, over the course of the war his grave was lost & so Harry is commemorated by the Commission on the Helles Memorial to the Missing in Gallipoli, Turkey together with 20,909 of his First World War missing comrades.

Harry is also remembered on the Carisbrooke War Memorial. Both his brothers Alfred Leonard & Reginald Robert also fell in the Great War.

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.