1885 - 1918 (32 years)
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| Name |
Edward Reginald Gibbs |
| Title |
Rev. |
| Birth |
9 Oct 1885 |
Hagley, Worcestershire  |
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| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
1891 |
Hagley, Worcestershire |
| Age: 5; Relation to Head of House: Son |
| Death |
29 Mar 1918 |
Boisleux-au-Mont, Pas de Calais, France |
- Killed in Action in the Great War
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| Notes |
- Baptised 18 October 1885 at Hagley. Educated at Haileybury College, 1899-1904, matric. at Oxford (Keble College) 1904, BA 1911, MA 1913, student at Coddesdon Theological College, 1910-11.
Died unmarried 29 March 1918, being killed in the Great War at Boisleux-le-Mont and was buried at Boisleux-le-Mont Communal Cemetery. Memorial Inscription there and Memorial window at Hagley. Will proved London 13 November 1918.
Deacon 1911; Priest 1912; Curate of Woodlands, nr. Doncaster, 1911-13. Chaplain to Archbishop of York 1913-17. In the Great War he was voluntary chaplain for the Red Cross Society to the Anglo-American hospital at Wimereux 1915-17; chaplain to 4th Cavalry Brigade in France September-November 1917; chaplain to 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards November 1917 till his death. Brit. War medal and Allies' (Victory) medal of the Great War, issued to his mother.
Portrait: Pastel with his brother A. Joseph
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| Person ID |
I2769 |
Gibbs Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
12 Jan 2018 |
| Father |
Rev. William Cobham Gibbs, b. 28 Jul 1845, Wraxall, Somerset d. 8 Mar 1918, East Budleigh, Devon (Age 72 years) |
| Mother |
Annie Katharina Downall, b. 26 Sep 1846, Wolverley, Worcestershire d. 11 Dec 1924, East Budleigh, Devon (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
6 Feb 1879 |
Exwick, Devon |
| Family ID |
F1127 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Gibbs Family Tree
