GIBBS, Charles Alfred
| Service Number: | 80 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 November 1915, 4 years 15th Infantry |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, June 1893 |
| Home Town: | Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 6 March 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lambton Fallen Soldiers HR, Wallsend Soldier's Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 80, 35th Infantry Battalion, 4 years 15th Infantry | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 80, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 80, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 6th March 1917, Private Charles Alfred Gibbs, sometimes referred to as Alfred, 35th Battalion (Reg No-80), labourer from Nelson Street, Wallsend, New South Wales, was Killed in Action in France, age 22. Cause of death not stated, possibly enemy artillery fire.
No Roll of Honour circular submitted.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales about 1893 to Herbert Thomas William (died 21.1.1943, Wallsend, N.S.W., age 67) and Emma Gibbs (died 9.10.1967, Newcastle, N.S.W.) of 14 Hill Street, Lambton, N.S.W.; husband of Mary Gibbs nee Slott of Clark Street, Wallsend, N.S.W. (married 1916, New Lambton, N.S.W., remarried to Harold Means, 1919, Wallsend, N.S.W., died?), Charles enlisted on the 11th November 1915 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Charles is resting at Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France. Plot IV Row F Grave 2.
Mr. Gibbs’s name has been inscribed on the Wallsend Soldiers' Memorial, Wallsend Municipal & District Roll of Honor, Wallsend (Federal Park) WW1 War Memorial, Wallsend Methodist Church Honor Roll, Lambton Park Citizens' Memorial Gates, Lambton Post Office Roll of Honor and the Lambton and New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor.
Place of Association – Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
There is no memorial inscription on the headstone plaque for the Gibbs family to tell us of the loss of their son during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of Charles’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 1 SW. 40.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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