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Second Lieutenant Edwin Ibbotson

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Military service

Age: 20
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Division: 10th Bn.
Birth: November 12, 1896 Birkdale, Lancashire, England
Enlistment: December 8, 1914 Victoria, British Columbia
Death: April 11, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Bay 7
Additional information
Son of Henry and Josephine Alberta (nee Sharples) Ibbotson, of Southport, England. Brother of Second Lieutenant Robert Ibbotson, Essex Regiment, killed in action 28 April 1917, George Frederick and Florence. Second Lieutenant Edwin Ibbotson, MC is commemorated on the Memorial at Salmon Arm, British Columbia; The Memorial erected by the municipalities of Armstrong and Spallumcheen, British Columbia; The War Memorial erected in 1923 by the Women's Auxiliary, war veterans and the citizens of Revelstoke, British Columbia. and on the Copper Memorial plaque at the Revelstoke Museum erected by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in honour of its employees who served in the First World War.
Additional citations

Military Cross, # 30001 Supplement to the London Gazette dated 23 March 1917 Temporary 2nd Lt. Edwin Ibbotson, N. Lan. R. "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led a successful raiding party against the enemy and inflicted many casualties. Later, he assisted to rescue several wounded men under very heavy fire."

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 578 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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