BORN HULL 19/03/1885. SON OF EDWIN GIBBINS (1847-1908) & ELLEN CHAPMAN (1848-1915), AT 7 BELGRAVE TERRACE, ETON STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. A SAILOR AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. HE MARRIED HANNAH JOHNSON (1884-1972), AT HULL IN 1904.
HE WAS A WELL KNOWN FISHERMAN AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ST ANDREWS RECREATION CLUB, WEST DOCK STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED IN 1904.
ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED AT VIMY RIDGE, ON 25/04/1917, AGED 32.
HE LEFT A WIDOW HANNAH JOHNSON AND FOUR CHILDREN, AT 12 JUBILEE TERRACE, SUBWAY STREET, HULL AND 2 CLAIRSBROOK AVENUE, ETON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 16/05/1917 & 26/04/1918. *
Paul Gibbins, paulgibbins13@gmail.com , writes on 11/02/2017:- After many hours researching my great uncle Edwin Ambrose Gibbins, I am sure that he was in 223rd Brigade RFA, not 233rd Brigade. A typo/transcription error seems to have been made in the CWGC records at the time of his death (also in the Hull Daily Mail).
1) 233rd Brigade RFA did not exist at the time of his death, having been broken up during the re-organization in August 1916.
2) The Record of Soldiers’ Effects clearly states “A/223 Brigade”.
3) War diaries clearly show that he was in A Battery 316th Brigade RFA until it was also broken up in August 1916 and he was transferred to A Battery 223rd Brigade. He is actually named.
