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| Name |
Richard Harry GIBBS |
| Rank/Number |
Sergeant 8049 |
| Regiment |
Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry 1st Battalion |
| Enlisted |
Banbury, Oxon |
| Age/Date of death |
28 07 Aug 1916 |
| How died/Theatre of war |
Died Mesopotamia |
| Last known address |
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| Cemetery |
Basra Memorial, Iraq |
| Grave or Memorial Reference |
Panel 26 & 63 |
| Location of memorial |
Westbury St Augustine |
| Date/Place of birth |
c1888 Westbury |
| Date/Place of baptism |
06 Nov 1887 Westbury |
| Pre-war occupation of Casualty |
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| Parents |
James & Sarah Jane Gibbs |
| Parent's occupation |
groom |
| Parents' Address (last known) |
1901: Main St, Westbury |
| Wife |
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| Wife's Address (last known) |
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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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