Name
Charles Gibbins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/03/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
376230
Durham Light Infantry
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 68 to 72.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
East Barnet Valley Memorial, New Barnet, St James Church Memorial, New Barnet , St James the Great Church Memorial, Friern Barnet Margaret Road School Memorial, Chipping Barnet, Not on the Hitchin memorials,
Pre War
Charles was born in New Barnet and resided there.
He enlisted in Watford. He was the son of Bill and Elizabeth Ann Gibbins of ‘Trenba’, Swanage Road, Southend-on-Sea and the husband of Annie Gibbins of 4, Davis Place, Queen Street, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
His Regimental Number was 376230 and he served in the l/6th Battalion. He was killed in action.
The Battalion was an A.T.F. unit and was part of the 151st Brigade of the 50th Division up to the 27th March 1918. The 50th Division was engaged in the Battle of Rosieres as part of XIX Corps in the 5th Army. Fighting was intense and the Division was near Mezieres and the surrounding woods south east of Amiens during the German Spring offensive. He has no known grave, but is remembered on Panels 68 - 72 of the Pozieres Memorial to the Missing in France.
Additional Information
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission shows his name as ‘Gibbins’ and this is probably the correct spelling. Son of Bill and Elizabeth Ann Gibbins, of "Trenba", Swanage Rd., Southend-on-Sea; husband of Annie Gibbins, of 4, Davis Place, Queen St., Hitchin, Herts. *1 If known, the ‘Barnet’ memorial is given, however ‘Barnet’ now appears to be the generic name for many historically separate Hertfordshire locations with Barnet in their name. While we try to unravel these – any help gratefully received! – we have to record ‘Barnet’. It may be that a person appears on several historical ‘barnets’. As this work is done, we will add further detail.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
