Abingdon and the First World War
Those Who Served
Wiblin
George William Arthur Wiblin
Details from the Abingdon Roll of Honour
Name: WIBLIN, George William Arthur
Status: Returned
Address: 5 Spring Road
Battalion, Ship or Squadron: 1st/4th
Regiment: Royal Berkshire Regiment
Chronology: August 1914 to March 1919, France
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Frank Wiblin
Frank was wounded in the foot and treated at the Glasgow Hospital. Family notes state that he was in the centre bed in this photograph.
Details from the Abingdon Roll of Honour
Name: WIBLIN, Frank Arthur Ewart
Status: Wounded
Address: 98 The Vineyard
Battalion, Ship or Squadron: 2nd
Regiment: Inniskilling Fusiliers
Chronology: May 1917 to March 1919, France, Belgium
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Harry Wiblin (of 126 Ock Street)
Details from the Abingdon Roll of Honour
Name: WIBLIN, Harry
Status: Died
Address: 126 Ock Street
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 200314
Battalion, Ship or Squadron: 2nd
Regiment: Royal Berkshire Regiment
Chronology: from August 1914, France
Cause of Death: Killed in action
Place at death: 3rd Canadian Hospital, Boulogne
Date of death: 13 December 1917
Born: Abingdon
Enlisted: Abingdon
Age at Death: 19
Family Details: Son of H. J. and Elizabeth Wiblin, of 126, Oak St., Abingdon, Berks.
Buried or Commemorated: Buried in BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.
Reference: Plot VIII. Row I. Grave 131.
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Harry Wiblin (of 218 Ock Street)
Details from the Abingdon Roll of Honour
Name: WIBLIN, Harry
Status: Wounded
Address: 218 Ock Street
Battalion, Ship or Squadron: 1st
Regiment: Royal Berkshire Regiment
Chronology: September 1914 to May 1917, France
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The photograph opposite is taken from the "Overseas Men" photograph taken in Roysse Court in 1919, on 4th August when the town held its Homecoming Parade for the men returned from the war. The identification of this individual was made by a descendant.
Original scans from the WW1 Families Collection
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