BORN HULL 28/3/1879. FIFTH SON OF GEORGE GIBSON (1839-1910) & MARY GIBSON (1845-1907). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.
HE MARRIED LILY WOODWARD (BORN 21 NOV 1876), AT HULL, IN 1914. HUSBAND OF LILY (WOODWARD) & SON KENNETH JAMES GIBSON, BORN 16 FEB 1916..
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/10/1917, AGED 39. COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, LILY AT 16, RENFREW STREET, PERTH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HIS SON LIEUTENAT, KENNETH JAMES GIBSON, SERVED IN THE 1ST KOYLI DURING WW2 AND WAS KILLED AT ANZIO, ON 22 MARCH 1944, AGED 28.
First name:
DAVID JAMES
Regiment:
Military Number:
25098
Rank:
Private
Date Died
04/10/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
39
