Name
Dennis Henry Stacey Gilbertson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/09/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Air Force
70th Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VILLERS-AU-TERTRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
In South-West part.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford
Pre War
Dennis was born in 1897 in Mangrove House, Hertford son of Albert Stacey and Ethel Hoole Gilbertson later of 62 Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone. Educated at Wellington College.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieut Northamptonshire Regiment. Transferred to the Royal Flying Corps., later the Royal Air Force.
A brief article in the Hertfordshire Express on 21st of September 1918 reports that his father has received notice that Dennis was reported missing on 4th of September. "He was one of a patrol which encountered a large enemy formation, and engaged superior numbers."
He was killed in France.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Malcolm Lennox
