A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Newport -
- Newport Drill Hall Isle of Wight Rifles -
- List 1 : Officers -

Location

Drill Hall, Drill Hall Road, Newport, Isle of Wight

IWM War Memorials Archive Record

Link : War Memorials Archive Reference 40740
 
Description

A series of 7 Portland Stone panels giving the names of the Isle of Wight Rifles soldiers who died in the Great War.

Note : the lists below are taken from that published by the Isle of Wight County Press 7th October 1922. This list also gave the residences and place of death of the soldiers mentioned. The Officers' list only gives rank names and gallantry awards.

See also the Isle of Wight Rifles Memorial at Carisbrooke Castle.

Return to panel index
Memorial

Newport : Drill Hall Isle of Wight Rifles Memorial - Officers
 
Gaza Cemetery grave markers
 
Gaza Cemetery : Original grave markers for Capt C Seely;
and Capt C S Pittis, MC, with Lieut S G Ratsey,
and Lieut S Attfield, of The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt)
attd. 9th Bn Hants Regt.
Also just visible is the grave marker for 2/Lt W G A Joseph
(Bedford Regt attd 1/5th Norfolk Regt)
 
photo from Brian Greening

Officers
Major E H Lewis CWGC record ... Biographical information
Captain L R Coke CWGC record ...
Captain A H Gore CWGC record ... Biographical information
Captain P E Leybourne MC and bar     CWGC record ...
Captain G C Loader CWGC record ... Biographical information
Captain C S Pittis MC CWGC record ...    Biographical information
Captain C Ratsey CWGC record ... Biographical information
Captain D W Ratsey CWGC record ... Biographical information
Captain C G Seely CWGC record ... Biographical information
Captain C C Trevor-Roper CWGC record ... Biographical information
Captain C J Villar CWGC record ...
Lieutenant R W Ashworth CWGC record ...
Lieutenant R H Montague CWGC record ...
Lieutenant H Pakeman CWGC record ...
Lieutenant C G Potter CWGC record ...
Lieutenant S G Ratsey CWGC record ... Biographical information
Lieutenant W F Read CWGC record ...
Lieutenant R Robertson CWGC record ...
Lieutenant J R Rodgers CWGC record ...
Lieutenant H J Sheryer CWGC record ...
Lieutenant W B Wood MC CWGC record ...
Lieutenant A Y Young-James CWGC record ... Biographical information
2nd Lieutenant     W B Bartlett CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant R A Blofeld CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant L W Brooks CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant H H Dodson CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant A H Hills CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant E C Hytten CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant R D King CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant P Latham CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant F C M Raymond CWGC record ... Biographical information
2nd Lieutenant J P Shelton CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant J Thorpe CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant L C Watson CWGC record ... Biographical information
2nd Lieutenant H E Whiteman CWGC record ...
2nd Lieutenant W G Wright CWGC record ... Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery


A further officer who died, but is not listed :

2nd Lieutenant T V W Wallace CWGC record ... Died in Gaza on 2nd Nov 1917


 
 

 
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