Private Walter Gibson

Army Number: 18194

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Whissendine, Rutland. Son of William and Mary Gibson, of Whissendine, Rutland; Husband of Elizabeth Gibson, of GateHouse, The Green, Calow, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was a sub-ganger on the Great Central Railway prior to enlisting at Chesterfield in November 1914. He went to France on 27th August 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 39, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France. Plot 5, Row A, Grave 13.

Private Walter Gibson grave — Photograph of the headstone kindly sent in by Debra Coleman.

Private Walter Gibson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Whissendine, Rutland.