Vincent's full name was Charles George Vincent; he was born in Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight and enlisted in Newport, Isle of Wight in the 8th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment--the Isle of Wight Rifles.
Vincent died at sea--probably of illness, as there's no mention of wounds. His battalion would have been between battles; it landed at Moudros on August 6, 1915 and at Suvla Bay three days later, leaving Gallipoli on December 3, 1915. It arrived in Alexandria, Egypt on December 19, 1915. Somewhere along the way, he seems to have fallen ill; he might even have been en route home when he died. That's probably why his tombstone reads, "He TRIED to do his duty"; he wasn't killed in battle and didn't die of injuries. Indeed, it's most probable that he died of dysentary; there was a huge outbreak of that in Gallipoli. Any civilian might have died the same way.
Whoever C.G.'s comrade Jack was, he seems to have survived WWI. Only two men from the Hampshire Regiment who had a possible first name of John (one was designated "J.E.") died after January 9, 1916 AND were buried in Netley Military Cemetery--and both were from different battalions than Vincent.
(I figured that if Jack was called Jack on C.G's gravestone, that might have been because he was local. Everyone already knew his last name. Hence my checking Netley Military Cemetery.)
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Date: 2012-10-26 02:49 pm (UTC)Vincent died at sea--probably of illness, as there's no mention of wounds. His battalion would have been between battles; it landed at Moudros on August 6, 1915 and at Suvla Bay three days later, leaving Gallipoli on December 3, 1915. It arrived in Alexandria, Egypt on December 19, 1915. Somewhere along the way, he seems to have fallen ill; he might even have been en route home when he died. That's probably why his tombstone reads, "He TRIED to do his duty"; he wasn't killed in battle and didn't die of injuries. Indeed, it's most probable that he died of dysentary; there was a huge outbreak of that in Gallipoli. Any civilian might have died the same way.
Whoever C.G.'s comrade Jack was, he seems to have survived WWI. Only two men from the Hampshire Regiment who had a possible first name of John (one was designated "J.E.") died after January 9, 1916 AND were buried in Netley Military Cemetery--and both were from different battalions than Vincent.
(I figured that if Jack was called Jack on C.G's gravestone, that might have been because he was local. Everyone already knew his last name. Hence my checking Netley Military Cemetery.)