Name
John James Sibley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/07/1916
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8176
Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own)
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. A. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Thundridge War Memorial
St John’s Church, High Cross
Headstone in High Cross churchyard, with Sale family Mortimer Berks
Pre War
Born in Stratfield, Mortimer, Berkshire, 3rd June 1887, son of Charles and Sarah (Carbine) Sibley. Married Emma Sale on 7 Aug 1915 in High Cross, Herts. Lived in Wadesmill, Ware, Herts. In 1901 he was living in Mortimer with parents Charles and Sarah, and his father was working as a bricklayer and John as a "domestic boy". John Sibley is said to have enlisted at Aldershot, probably around 1905 and was a regular soldier. His address is given as Wadesmill in Military records In 1911 he was living in Barracks at Ras-el-Tin in Egypt, recorded to have been a butcher. He is recorded on a gravestone in the churchyard at High Cross along with Rebecca Sale and Esau Sale, who both appear in the 1911 census as living in Wadesmill. Esau is a domestic gardener. In 1915 John had married Emma Sale at Wadesmill, and was an acting Lance Corporal at the time, so these are his in laws.
Wartime Service
He was in the 1st Bn. of the Yorkshires in Egypt, but at some time transferred to the 2nd Bn. who were in Europe.
Additional Information
His wife remarried in 1919 to a Mr Camp. See additional information sheet.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Pat Bird, Christopher Johnson – Great Nephew, www.ww1-yorkshires.org.uk
