Name |
Richard Harry GIBBS |
Rank/Number |
Sergeant / 8049 |
Regiment/Unit |
Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry / 1st Battalion |
Enlisted |
Banbury, Oxon |
Age/Date of death |
28 / 07 Aug 1916 |
How died/Theatre of war |
Died / Mesopotamia |
Residence at death |
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Cemetery |
Basra Memorial, Iraq |
Grave Reference |
Panel 26 & 63 |
Location of memorial |
Westbury |
Date/Place of birth |
c1888 / Westbury |
Date/Place of baptism |
06 Nov 1887 Westbury |
Occupation of Casualty |
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Parents/Occupation |
James & Sarah Jane Gibbs / groom |
Parents' Address |
1901: Main St, Westbury |
Wife |
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Wife's Address |
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Notes |
taken prisoner in the fall of Kut. Died as POW of Turks at Doiran. Had been recommended for a commission |
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