BORN HULL 1899. SECOND SON OF ROSE ANN TOMLINSON & JOHN WILLIAM GIBBINS AT 67 YORK STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND 18 ESTCOURT STREET, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. SON OF A DOCKSIDE LABOURER. ENLISTED HULL. TRANSFERRED TO THE “LEEDS PALS”. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 18. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 15/04/1919.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER JOHN.
First name:
JAMES
Military Number:
61651
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/04/1918
Place died:
Steenwerck Cemetery, Nord, France
Age:
18
18 , ESTCOURT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
