Private
130
54th (1st/1st East Anglian) Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps
who died on
Friday, 13th August 1915. Age 33.
Additional Information: Son of George Garbett; husband of Annie Elizabeth Garbett, of 110. Avenue Rd., Wath-on-Dearne, Rotherham.
Commemorative Information
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: Panel 199 and 200 or 236 to 239 and 328
Location: The Helles Memorial stands on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. It takes the form of an obelisk over 30 metres high that can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles. The Helles Memorial commemorates the whole of the Gallipoli campaign, so far as the forces of the Commonwealth were concerned in it, and in particular the names of over 20,000 of those with no known grave from the United Kingdom, India and Newfoundland at Suvla, Helles and Anzac, and those of Australians at Helles.
Historical Information: Almost 1,400 of the names are officers and men of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, over 15,000 soldiers of the United Kingdom and Australia, and over 1,500 soldiers of the Indian Army, all of whom fell on the Peninsula. In addition there are over 1,000 names of soldiers of the United Kingdom and Australia who were lost at sea, and over 1,700 soldiers of the United Kingdom who died and were buried at sea after evacuation from the Peninsula. Also inscribed on the memorial are the names of all the ships that took part in the campaign and the titles of the army formations and units which served on the Peninsula. There are now almost 21,000 casualties of the 1914-18 war named on the Helles Memorial. There are five Memorials to the Missing erected on Gallipoli. The Lone Pine, Hill 60, and Chunuk Bair Memorials commemorate Australian and New Zealanders at Anzac. The Twelve Tree Copse Memorial commemorates the New Zealanders at Helles. Naval casualties of the United Kingdom lost or buried at sea are recorded on their respective Memorials at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham, in the United Kingdom.
Private
21569
10th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
who died on
Friday, 21st July 1916. Age 21.
Additional Information: Son of William and Rose Garbett, of 1, Oak Lane, Spinney, Boney Hay, Walsall, Staffs. Native of Boney Hay.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: XIV. D. 5A.
Location: Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
Historical Information: During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained. The cemetery contains 10,769 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. Hospitals were again stationed at Etaples during the Second World War and the cemetery was used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War burials, 38 are unidentified. Etaples Military Cemetery also contains 658 German burials and a few war graves of other nationalities. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.