A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
Links to
- CWGC Headstones -
- Belgium : Ypres area : Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery CWGC -
- Sidney Miles Toppin -

Location

In Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
 
Description

Standard CWGC Headstone.
Grave location : XXIV. G. 6.
Headstone


 
Inscription

MAJOR
S.M. TOPPIN, M.C.
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY
27TH SEPTEMBER 1917 AGE 39

FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH

 
Further Information

Sidney Miles Toppin

Son of : James Morris Toppin and Jane Toppin (née Mathews) of Blacklands Park, Wiltshire.

Born : 1878 (location unknown)

Married : 20 August 1914, Jessie Viva Coleman, at Christ Church, Sandown, Isle of Wight.

The CWGC records gives his wife as Viva Toppin, of Rose Bank, Sandown, Isle of Wight. It is this reference which has caused the inclusion of this casualty in this website. It is not known whether Sidney Miles Toppin ever lived on the Isle of Wight.

CWGC record ...
 
Not commmemorated on any Isle of Wight Memorials.

Lives of the First World War record includes photograph and other biographical information.


Documents and Newspaper cuttings


Isle of Wight County Press, 22 August 1914


National Probate Calendar, 1918 The address shown is that of his parents.


 
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