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Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Regiment
Division:
5th Bn. attd. 13th Bn.
Birth:
May 31, 1890
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Enlistment:
October 1, 1914
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
April 28, 1917
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Son of Henry and Josephine Alberta (nee Sharples) Ibbotson, of Southport, England. Brother of Second Lieutenant Edwin Ibbotson, MC, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, killed in action 11 April 1917, George Frederick and Florence. Second Lieutenant Robert Ibottson, is commemorated on the Memorial at Salmon Arm, British Columbia; The Memorial erected by the municipalities of Armstrong and Spallumcheen, British Columbia.
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War Memorial
War Memorial, Salmon Arm & District, British Columbia. Inscribed:<P> IN MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM SALMON ARM DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918. OUR HEROIC DEAD / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Second Lieutenant Robert Ibbotson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Robert Ibbotson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 578 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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