Private Henry Gibson

Private Henry Gibson, 1st/7th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in France on 27th March 1916, aged 18. He was the son of Ralph and Margaret Gibson of Haugh Head, Wooler and is buried in Railway Dug Outs, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. He was killed with eight of his comrades in a German attack on his trench. The attack was repulsed with heavy casualties to the attackers. He had become a Territorial at age 16 and when War broke out he was called up for action and arrived in France in April 1915. His Headstone is inscribed ” Till we Meet Again”. The photograph shows the impressive Memorial raised to the fallen of the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Division of which the Battalion was part until February 1918. It was erected near the village of Weiltke in the Ypres Salient where nearby the Division had fought its first action of the War on 26th April only days after landing on the continent.

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