Name
William George Gibson
1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/03/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/64074
Royal Fusiliers
23rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, All Saints Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
William George Gibson was born in 1880 in Thame, Oxfordshire, the son of Henry Robert and Ellen Gibson and one of eight children, although only six were living in 1911. He was baptised on 20 November 1880 at Thame.
On the 1891 Census the family were living in North Street, Thame, where his father was working as a labourer. By 1891 they had moved to Berkhamsted and were living at Cross Oak Road at which time his father was working as a gardener and they remained there in 1901.
On 20 October 1904 he married Elizabeth Bruton at Great Berkhamsted and on the 1911 Census they were living at 34 Victoria Road, Berkhamsted when he was working as a gardener nurseryman. They had three children, Alice, Geoffrey and Barbara and later lived at 24 Charles Street, Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
William enlisted in Berkhamsted and joined the 23rd Battalion of Royal Fusiliers (London Regiment).
He was initially posted as missing but later confirmed as killed in action on 23 August 1918, aged 38 during the Battle of Albert. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £10 6s 10d. She also received a pension of £1 9s 7d a week for herself and her three children.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
