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Pte. Ernest Alfred Gilbert
British Army 28th (Artists Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Acton, London
(d.25th April 1917)
Ernest Gilbert was born in Kensington in 1886, second of three sons to Richard and Susan Gilbert. The 1891 census shows that the family had moved to 13 Sugden Road, Battersea, Richard (11), Ernest (4) and Montague (1). By 1911 the family had moved to 57 Creffield Road, Acton; and Ernest (24) was working as a shipbroker's clerk. Ernest married Dorothy Herapeth on the 19 July 1913 but the marriage was anulled on the 11 January 1915.
Ernest enlisted on the 29th of November 1915 with the 28th (Artists Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment, embarking for France from Southampton on the 21st of April 1916 and arriving in Rouen the next day. He died on the 25th April 1917 aged 30 years. There is a page in his Army record which simply says, "Killed in the field (whilst undergoing Course of Instruction)". He is buried in the Chester Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
His records also show that his personal effects returned to his next of kin were: Letters, Photos, Pocket Case, Religious Medallion, Wrist Watch, Metal Watch, Gold Ring, Cap Badge, Torch, Pipe in Case, Fountain Pen and Metal Mirror. Sadly his father passed away in 1920 and his mother in 1921, so his medals were issued to his brother Montague in 1923.
Pte. Fred Gilbert
British Army 2nd Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Heath Town
(d.24th March 1918)
My Great Uncle Fred Gilbert served with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers and then the Scottish Rifles. He was a good rifleman winning awards at home. He was killed near Pozieres and has no known grave. He was a big man with a determination not to come home wounded, according to family now deceased.
Pte. Frederick Gilbert
British Army 1st Garrison Bn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Norfolk
(d.10th Aug 1917)
Little is known about Frederick Gilbert, he is understood to have died in a flood guiding a hospital in Delhi. Frederick Gilbert is buried Murgha Mehtaryai Camp. He is remembered with honour at The Delhi Memorial India Gate.
Pte. Frederick Gilbert
British Army 2nd Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Heath Town, Wolverhampton
(d.24th Mar 1918)
Fred Gilbert is commemorated on the Pozieres memorial. He was killed in action.
Pte James Albert Gilbert
British Army 3rd Btn. South Wales Borderers
Sgt. John Thomas Gilbert
British Army 2/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Bilton, Rugby, Warwickshire
(d.1st Aug 1916)
John Gilbert was born in 1884. He was married in 1910 to Edith Hannah Robinson. John died from wounds sustained in France & Flanders in the Kitchener Hospital, Brighton in 1916. He is buried in St Marks Churchyard Bilton Rugby Warwickshire. He left behind 4 children born 1910, 1912, 1914 and 1916.
S/Sgt. John Davidson Gilbert MM.
British Army 89th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Aberdeen
John Gilbert served with the 89th Field Ambulance, RAMC and was also a piper. I believe he played his pipes on the battlefield.
Pte. Reginald Herbert Gilbert
Australian Imperial Force 4th Pioneer Btn.
Reginald Gilbert was invalided from Calais to England aboard HS Brighton with influenza. He was admitted to High Beach Hospital on 1st September 1916.
Spr. Thomas Gilbert
British Army 319th Road Construction Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Prees
Sgt. William Gilbert MM
British Army 26th Btn. (3rd Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusilliers
from:Silver Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
My Gradfather William Gilbert married into an Irish immigrant family in Newcastle and as a consequence when he joined up he chose the Tyneside Irish pals battalion of the Northumberland Fusilliers. He was awarded the Military Medal for action during the Battle of the Somme but I do not know the details of the action for which the MM was awarded.
Pte. William Peter Northey Gilbert
British Army 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment
from:Torpoint, Cornwall
(d.1st July 1916)
My Great Uncle William Gilbert was 19 when he was killed in action on 1st of July 1916. He was the eldest child of John Jeffery and Angelina (nee Hosking) Gilbert. His brother, my grandfather, also called John Jeffery, was just 14 when William was killed in France. William also had a younger sister, Angelina Winifred Gilbert (later married to Ernest Tippett).
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme the 2nd Devons attacked between Ovillers and La Boiselle, known as Mash Valley, where I believe William was killed and his body never found. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial as well as the War Memorial in his home town of Torpoint.
Pte. Henry Gilbey
British Army 1st Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Ware
(d.27th Sept 1918)
Pte. Edward Thomas Gilchrist
British Army 8th Btn. Border Regiment
from:Gerrerd Street, Liverpool
My grandfather, Edward Gilchrist, served with the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment in WW1. He was captured at Armentieres 10th of April 1918 and was a POW at Stendal Camp.
Pte. Edward Thomas "Ned" Gilchrist
British Army 8th Btn. Border Regiment
from:Liverpool
Ned Gilchrist served with the 8th and 11th Battalion, Border Regiment.
Pte. John Gilchrist MM.
British Army 8th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Baillieston, Glasgow
My Grandfather Pte. John Gilchrist served with the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 8th Battalion and was awarded the MM for "Conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty as runner at Bde HQ during the offensive from 7th to 10th June 1917 near Ypres. He carried messages through heavy fire continuously for three days. He showed an utter disregard of danger, and set a high example to other runners." This extract is from the original commendation for MM signed by the Lt Col AA &QMG., 23rd Division which I still have. He was casevaced home after he and the C.O. were injured. He lived until the 1950s but was not in great health. He first heard of his commendation for the MM when he was in hospital.
Pte. John Gilchrist
British Army 1/8 Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Islay
(d.9th Apr 1917)
Pte. John Gilchrist served with the 1/8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He died on 9th April 1917.
Pte John Gilchrist
British Army 15th Btn Highland Light Infantry
from:Glasgow
Pte. William Little Gilchrist
British Army 1/8th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
from:Scotland
(d.23rd Mar 1918)
William Gilchrist was 41 years of age when he was killed in France. His parents were Robert and Mary Gilchrist of Glasgow, Scotland.
Pte William Little Gilchrist
British Army 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Lesmahago, Scotland
(d.23rd March 1918)
Pte. T. C. Gildea
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
T Gildea was discharged in 1918 sick
Rfmn. Thomas Gildersleve
British Army 13th Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
from:Bethnal Green, London
(d.14th Nov 1916)
Thomas Gildersleve was my maternal uncle, one of four brothers all of whom fought in the Great War. He was born in 1888 and enlisted in Bethnal Green where he lived with his family in Roman Road.
His Battalion, more commonly now known as "The Green Jackets" landed at Boulogne in France in July 1915. He fought on the Western Front in France and Flanders and was reported of dying of wounds on the 14th November 1916. He was probably then buried close to a field hospital (burial registration no 72205) but because of the subsequent severe fighting that took place over the same area in 1918 the exact location of his grave was lost and is consequently recorded on the Thiepal Memorial (Pier 16B) as having no known grave.
Sgt. Leonard Gilding
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Nottingham
(d.23rd Aug 1917)
Leonard Gilding was the son of John Henry and Mary Ann Gilding and the brother of Oonah, Gerty, Joseph, Thomas, Alfred, John Henry, Rose Jane and John Henry Gilding. In 1911 they lived at 40 Goodhead Street, meadows Nottingham. He died of wounds 23rd Aug 1917 at the age of 24 and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium. He was a colliery labourer working the coal mines in Nottingham before the war.
VAD. Giles
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 32 Stationary Hospital
Gsr. Albert Alexander William Smith Giles
Mercantile Marine Reserve MFA Ooma
from:Horley, Surrey
(d.30th December 1917)
Greaser Giles was the son of Richard and Fanny Giles, of Hastings, Sussex; husband of Edith Harriet Giles of 5 Gatwick Cottage, Povey Cross, Horley, Surrey.
He was 40 when he died and is buried in the Gamboa British Cemetery in Brazil, Grave 1306.
Pte. Albert Giles
British Army 5th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Cricklade, Wiltshire
(d.26th Jun 1916)
Rfm. Charles Elvin Giles
British army 7th Battalion, B Coy, No.6 section King`s Royal Rifle Corps
from:131 Ladytwell Road
I am in possession of my father's army pay book and note book in which he has listed the men in his section,as follows:
Number 6 section B coy
He also lists the soldiers in Sections 5,7 and 8 if these are of any interest I can send them on.- 8207 L/sgt. Lane L
- R?986Cpl ?
- R6264 L/cpl Giles C
- R13492 Rfl. Adams. A
- R18696 Rfl. Albam ?
- R34487 Rfl. ??ing
- R27375 Rfl. Lemon
- R18040 Rfl. Butler
- R21664 Rfl.Austin
- R13104 Rfl. Lacy.C
- Rl1731 Rfl. Lee.H
I am seeking the relevant war diary covering my father's service. I can tell you he was wounded twice.On one of these occasions whilst convalescing he was sent to Ireland to help with the Troubles there. I remember him saying he would prefer to have been in France where you could be shot from the front and not in the back!
Rfmn. David Giles
British Army 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Old Arlesford, Hampshire
(d.22nd June 1915)
David Giles was my great uncle on my mother's side. David was the son of Henry and Lucy Giles of Barton Cottage, Old Alresford, Hampshire. He enlisted in the 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade in WW1 and was killed on 22nd of June 1916 aged 21 years. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ypres, Belgium and on a plaque in Old Alresford Church.
Pte. Ernest William Giles
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:2 Butts Road, Alton, Hampshire
(d.22nd Mar 1918)
Ernest Giles was previously with the Hampshire Regiment (regimental number 20700). The 1st battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were transferred to the 109th Brigade of 36th Division on 5th February 1918. The three day Battle of St Quentin began on 21st March 1918, during which time the 109th were holding a position south-west of St Quentin before being cut off and surrounded. Ernest was killed on the second day of the battle and his memorial is at Pozieres.
Pte. Ernest William Giles
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Alton
(d.22nd March 1918)
Pte. Frederick George Giles
British Army 2nd Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
from:Blandford, Dorset
(d.6th Sep 1916)
Frederick Giles died on 6th September 1916, aged 27 and is buried in the Baghdad North Gate Cemetery, Iraq. He was the son of Alfred Edwin Giles of Tarrant Gunville, Blandford, Dorset.
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