Private
6902
2nd Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment
who died on
Saturday, 31st July 1915. Age 34.
Additional Information: Husband of Florence Garbett, of 10/38, Newsummer St., Birmingham.
Commemorative Information
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: Panel 6
Location: Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret Military Cemetery, on the south side of the Bethune-Armentieres main road. From Bethune follow the signs for Armentieres until you are on the D171. Continue on this road through Essars and Le Touret village. Approximately 1 kilometre after Le Touret village and about 5 kilometres before you reach the intersection with the D947, Estaires to La Bassee road, the Cemetery lies on the right hand side of the road. The Memorial takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open rectangular court. The court is enclosed by three solid walls and on the eastern side by a colonnade. East of the colonnade is a wall and the colonnade and wall are prolonged northwards (to the road) and southwards, forming a long gallery. Small pavilions mark the ends of the gallery and the western corners of the court. The names of those commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by Regiment, Rank and alphabetically by surname within the rank. Over 13,000 names are listed on the memorial of men who fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.
Historical Information: The Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to record the names of the officers and men who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves the area enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival of the II Corps in Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos. It does not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian regiments; they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle.
Captain
315743
6th Bn., South Wales Borderers
who died on
Sunday, 29th April 1945. Age 25.
Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Millicent Garbett, of Crynant, Glamorgan.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY, Myanmar
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: 20. F. 23.
Location: Taukkyan War Cemetery is outside Yangon (formerly Rangoon), near the airport and immediately adjoining the village of Taukkyan. It is on PY1 road (formerly Prome Road), about 35 kilometres north of the city from which it is easily accessible. In the centre of the Cemetery stands the Rangoon Memorial, surrounded by the graves of more than 6,000 men who fought and died with those whom it commemorates, whose remains were brought from the battlefield cemeteries at Akyab, Mandalay, Meiktila and Sahmaw, and from scattered jungle and roadside graves all over Burma. The Taukkyan Cremation Memorial, situated at the far end of the Taukkyan War Cemetery, commemorates over 900 men of the forces of undivided India and 80 members of the army of Burma who died during the 1939-1945 World War and whose remains were accorded the last rite required by their religion - committal to fire.
Historical Information: Burma (now Myanmar), was formerly part of British India. It became a separate state in April, 1937. During the Japanese occupation the civil Government functioned in India from December 1941, returning to Burma in October 1945. After the war Burma broke away from British rule and became a soverign independent republic called the Independent Union of Burma, consisting of Burma proper, the Shan States and Karen States. Taukkyan War Cemetery is the largest of the three war cemeteries in Burma. It was commenced in 1951 for the reception of graves from four battlefield cemeteries which were difficult to access and could not be maintained; Akyab, Mandalay, Meiktila and Sahmaw Cemeteries. The last was an original "Chindit" cemetery containing many of the casualties from the battle for Myitkyina. The individuality of these battlefield cemeteries has been carefully preserved by grouping together in this new cemetery the graves from each. Graves were also transferred from civil and cantonment cemeteries, and a number of jungle and roadside graves were brought in. Owing to prolonged post-war unrest, considerable delay occured before the Army Graves Service were able to complete their work, and in the meantime many such graves had disappeared. However, when the task was resumed, several hundred more graves were retrieved from scattered positions throughout the country and brought together here. In addition, the graves of 52 Commonwealth servicemen who died during the years 1914-1918 have also been moved into this cemetery from Henzada Cemetery (1), Meiktila Cantonment Cemetery (8), Thayetmyo New Cemetery (5), Thamakan Cemetery (4), Mandalay Military Cemetery (12) and Maymyo Cantonment Cemetery (22), where permanent maintenance was not possible. There are now 52 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 5,922 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-45 war commemorated in this site (excluding the memorials). 867 of the 1939-45 casualties are unidentified. There are also 2 non world war burials here.