SIBBICK, Reginald Robert

Credit: CWGC

Rifleman

B Company 1st/8th Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles

Hampshire Regiment

Reginald was born 1895 in Bowcombe, Carisbrooke to Oliver & Susan (nee FROUD) SIBBICK who were living in Idlecombe, Carisbrooke around the time of Harry’s death.

Reginald, aged 20, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 12th of August 1915. His body was never recovered or identified & so Reginald 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.

Reginald is also remembered on the Carisbrooke & IW Rifles War Memorials. Both his brothers Alfred Leonard & Harry Froude 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.