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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Freshwater All Saints : Arthur Norman Larbalestier -

Location

In All Saints' Cemetery, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
 
Description

CWGC headstone. WW I pattern.
Grave location : F 133
Headstone

Freshwater : Arthur Norman Larbalestier
 
Inscription


6639 PRIVATE
A N LARBALESTIER
DUKE OF CORNWALL'S L I
27TH MAY 1916
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Further Information

Son of Edward Charles Larbalestier and the late Eugenie Larbalestier, of Eastbourne House, Havre Des Pas, St Helier.

Born 1880 : St Helier, Jersey.

Married 1911, Ruby E. Mutton (registered Wandsworth June qtr 1911): one daughter, Ruby M., born 1912.

Documents and newspaper cuttings :

ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY

Friday, June 2, 1916 Page 3

Cliff Tragedy in the Island.
Pte. Arthur Norman Labalister fell over a cliff near Tennyson's Beacon, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, whilst out for recreation. The body has been recovered from the sea.


Further reports from the Jersey press can be found at this website :

The Channel Islands and the Great War

His name is listed in the Island Wiki Roll of Honour

CWGC record ...
 

Acknowledgments :

Janet Griffin for newspaper and other research


 

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Page last updated : 5 November 2012 (added links and newspaper report)


 
 

 
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