BORN HULL, 20/08/1882. SON OF JAMES CHARLES GIBBS & MARY ANN WHITFIELD ANDERSON, AT 105, SOMERSET STREET, HULL AND 11, DIVISION ROAD, HULL (Pension address). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, CHARLES AND FOUR SISTERS. A GENERAL LABOURER. HE WAS WELL KNOWN ON THE FISH DOCK & EMPLOYED BY MR FIELD, BILLINSGATE.
HIS WIFE MARY ELIZABETH FOYSTON (1883-1956), LIVED AT 5, ROSE TERRACE, CONSTABLE STREET, HULL. HE SERVED AS AN ENGINEMAN. HIS TRAWLER “COTSMUIR”, WAS ATTACKED BY U21, OFF EAST COAST & SANK QUICKLY. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 6TH MARCH 1916 AND 14TH MARCH 1917 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
On 02/02/1917 the HMT COTSMUIR (FY1537) disappeared on passage from River Tyne to River Humber. All 13 crew were lost. On was service, the ship never fished commercially. The following Hull men were lost in the crew of 13.
GIBBS, GEORGE WHITFIELD (34), Engineman (no. 3708TS), HMT Cotsmuir, Royal Naval Reserve, †02/02/1917, Son of J. C. Gibbs; husband of Mary Elizabeth Gibbs, of 5, Rose Terrace, Constable St., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
HUNTER (32), Second Hand (no. 297/DA), HMT Cotsmuir, Royal Naval Reserve, †02/02/1917, Son of Mrs. Isabel Dugdall, of 46, Mason St., Hull, Memorial: Ulrome (St. Andrew) Churchyard
KIRKPATRICK, THOMAS WILLIAM , Trimmer Cook (no. 714TC), HMT Cotsmuir, Royal Naval Reserve, †02/02/1917, Native of Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
STOCKTON, WILLIAM (26), Engineman (no. 3984ES), HMT Cotsmuir, Royal Naval Reserve, †02/02/1917, Son of Mary Stockton, of 35, Tyne St., Hessle Rd., Hull, and the late William Stockton, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial.
