BORN HULL 1875. NOTE HIS SURNAMES IS SOMETIMES SPELT AS GIBSON, JIPSON & JEPSON- CWGC RECORDS? ELDEST SON OF ROBERT JIPSON AND KATE ELLEN BLENKIN, OF 23 EXCHANGE STREET. HIS OCCUPATION WAS LISTED AS A MASON (1913 KELLYS DIRECTORY)
HE SERVED 3 YEARS ON A MINESWEEPER. LOST AT SEA. HE WAS A WIDOWER AND LEFT SON CHARLES ROBERT JIPSON, LIVING AT 23 EXCHANGE STREET, HULL. HE WAS AGED 44 AD WELL KNOWN ON HULL FISH DOCKS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 30/10/1919. *
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK.
HIS NAME IS ALSO INSCRIBED ON THE PILLARS ON ST MARYS’ CHURCH, SCULCOATES LANE WITH HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, HERBERT JIPSON, DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, WHO WAS KILLED ON 10/04/1917.
THREE BOTHERS, SERVED AT 23 EXCHANGE STREET – CORPORAL, GEORGE JEPSON, 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS, WOUNDED AT THE DARDANELLES; PERCY JEPSON, HMS ‘IMPREGNABLE’; AND ROBERT JEPSON, MINESWEEPERS.
