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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
Links to
- CWGC Headstones -
- Belgium : Ypres area : Cemetery CWGC : David Vincent Sheen -

Location

In Potijze Chateau Wood Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
 
Description

Standard CWGC Headstone.
Grave location : A. 27.
Headstone


 
Inscription


3261 PRIVATE
DAVID VINCENT SHEEN
HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT
9TH AUGUST 1916 AGE 22

HE DIED FOR
FREEDOM AND HONOUR


 
Further Information

Name : David Vincent Sheen

Son of George and Johnannah Elizabeth Sheen, of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight.

Born : 1894, Canada.

Census Information :

1901 : Elizabeth Sheen, with her children including David, aged 7, are at The Barracks, Throxenby, North Yorkshire. [Father George Sheen is not listed; it is presumed he was in the Army elsewhere].

1911 : David Sheen, aged 17 is a Private, 3rd Bn., Hampshire Regiment, Winchester.

CWGC record ...
 
Commemorated on the following Isle of Wight Memorial(s) :

Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Panel 14
Carisbrooke Parish War Memorial
Newport Borough War Memorial

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