BORN HULL 1890. SON OF CHARLES & JULIA GIBLIN, OF 5, HILDAS GROVE, LEE SMITH STREET, HULL AND 3, EMPRINGHAM STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ELDEST OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE WAS AN APPRENTICE BOILER MAKER & HIS FATHER WAS A BOILER MAKER. HE LIVED AT 5, HILDA’S GROVE, LEE SMITH STREET IN 1901 AND 3, WALLER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRES. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 17/04/1915. PROMOTED SERGEANT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/12/1917, AGED 27. HE LEFT HIS ARMY AFFECTS TO HIS MOTHER, AT 3, EMPRINGHAM STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL.BELGIUM, TO THE MISSING.
First name:
JOHN
Regiment:
Military Number:
200576
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
27/12/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
27
3, EMPRINGHAM STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULLL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
