Private
61872
"C" Coy. 10th Bn., West Yorkshire Regt. (Prince of Wales's Own)
who died on
Friday, 20th September 1918. Age 19.
Additional Information: Son of John and Maria Garbett, of 21, Walsall St., West Bromwich.
Commemorative Information
Memorial: VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: Panel 4
Location: Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt are villages on the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai about 10 kilometres south-east of Arras. Within the grounds of Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, which is west of Haucourt on the north side of the main road, will be found the Vis-en-Artois Memorial. This Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave. They belonged to the forces of Great Britain and Ireland and South Africa; the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces being commemorated on other memorials to the missing. The Memorial consists of a screen wall in three parts. The middle part of the screen wall is concave and carries stone panels on which names are carved. It is 26 feet high flanked by pylons 70 feet high. The Stone of Remembrance stands exactly between the pylons and behind it, in the middle of the screen, is a group in relief representing St George and the Dragon. The flanking parts of the screen wall are also curved and carry stone panels carved with names. Each of them forms the back of a roofed colonnade; and at the far end of each is a small building.
Private
TF/235299
23rd Bn., Middlesex Regiment
who died on
Sunday, 24th March 1918. Age 31.
Additional Information: Son of the late John and Ester Garbett; husband of Emily Garbett, of Howdles Cottages, Watling St., Brownhills, Walsall, Staffs.
Commemorative Information
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: Bay 7
Location: The Arras Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras. The cemetery is near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station. The Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 casualties of the British, New Zealand and South African Forces who died between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918, with the exception of casualties of the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, and who have no known grave. The design, by Sir Edwin Lutyens, consists of a cloister, 25 feet high and 380 feet long, built up on Doric columns and faces west. In the broader part of the site the colonnade returns to form a recessed and open court, terminated by an apse. The names of the casualties are carved on stone panels fixed to the cloister walls.
Historical Information: The Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 casualties of the British, New Zealand and South African Forces who died between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918, excluding casualties of the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, and who have no known grave. The design, by Sir Edwin Lutyens, consists of a cloister built upon Doric columns and faces west. In the broader part of the site the colonnade returns to form a recessed and open court, terminated by an apse in front of which is the Arras Flying Services Memorial. The names of the casualties are carved on stone panels which are fixed to the cloister walls.
Serjeant
36787
61st Bn., Machine Gun Corps (Inf)
who died on
Friday, 12th April 1918. Age 23.
Additional Information: Son of Richard John and Eliza Garbett, of 17, Langley House, Finger Dawley, Salop.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: ST. VENANT-ROBECQ ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, ROBECQ, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: II. C. 9.
Location: St. Venant is a small town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 15 kilometres north-west of Bethune. Robecq Road British Cemetery is on the east side of the main road between St. Venant and Robecq, a smaller village 3 kilometres to the south east.
Historical Information: During the greater part of the war the villages of St. Venant and Robecq remained practically undamaged; but in the Battles of the Lys, in April, 1918, the German line was established within 2 kilometres of the road. The cemetery was begun about the 12th April and used as a "front line" cemetery until the end of July. It contained at the Armistice 47 graves, but it was then greatly enlarged by the concentration from other cemeteries and from the battlefields South of St. Venant. There are now over 450, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly one-fifth are unidentified and special memorials (three on the South side of the cemetery and two in Plot I, Row E.) are erected to five soldiers from the United Kingdom known or believed to be buried among them. The cemetery covers an area of 1,631 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall. The more important cemeteries concentrated into St. Venant-Robecq Road British Cemetery were: La Haye British Cemetery, St. Venant, in the hamlet of La Haye, 1 kilometre South-East of St. Venant. It was begun by the 2/7th Royal Warwicks and 2/8th Worcesters in April, 1918, and used until late in August. It contained the graves of 65 soldiers from the United Kingdom. Carvin British Cemetery, Mont-Bernenchon, in the orchard of a farm at Carvin, a hamlet nearly 2 kilometres North-East of Robecq. It was used by fighting units and Field Ambulances from April to August, 1918, and it contained the graves of 54 soldiers from the United Kingdom and seven German prisoners.