Every Name a Story
In Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Belgium is the Commonwealth War Grave of 206928 Private Arthur Sydney Gilbert, serving with 7th Battalion The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) who died 14/08/1917.
Margaret Allison reports that in 1911 he lived at 5 Beatrice Street, Ashington and that he was aged 34 when he died.
Soldiers Died in the Great War gives his service number as T/206928 and states that he formerly served with the Northumbrian Cyclist Battalion with the service number 365240.
Arthur Sydney Gilbert is remembered in Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43