BORN HULL 15/05/1890. SON OF FRED GIBSON (1865-1943) & CLARA ELSOM (1865-1939), OF 107 LINNAEUS STREET, HULL (1918 ABSENT VOTERS) AND 25, DUESBURY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE SISTER, MADGE.
HE WORKED AS A MERCANTILE APPRENTICE FROM 107 LINNAEUS STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS).
HIS PARTNER WAS HILDA LETITIA INGRAM AND THEY HAD ONE SON, FRED VERNON (1914-1975)
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 2153, EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. TRANSFERRED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 6TH DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/07/1918, AGED 28
HE LEFT £300 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, FRED WHO WAS A COMPANY SECRETARY, AT 107 LINNEAUS STREET, HULL (PROBATE ADDRESS). MISS CLARA GIBSON AT 25, DUESBURY STREET, HULL, BECAME GUARDIAN OF HIS CHILD (WAR PENSION RECORDS).
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL’S HYMER COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL AND AT ST JOHNS, NEWLAND WAR MEMORIAL, CLOUGH ROAD, HULL.
HE IS BURIED AT HARPONVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR SON HE DIED FOR ENGLAND’S SAKE”
