_s._ of the late Campbell Gibson, of Messrs. George Gibson &
Co., of Leith, Shipowners; _b._ Edinburgh. 11 May, 1890; educ.
Cargilfield, Loretto, and in France; was before the war employed in
his father’s firm; hon. secretary of the Leith Dock Labour Employers’
Association from its formation, and Commissioner of the Leith Boy
Scouts. On the formation of the Forth Division, R.N.V.R., he was
appointed its commanding officer, and in Sept. 1914, was promoted
Lieut.-Commander of the Nelson Battn., with which he served in the
Antwerp Expedition, and afterwards in the Dardanelles. He was killed
in action near Cannon’s Post, Gaba Tepe, while leading his company at
daybreak, 3 May, 1915, and was buried where he fell. Writing to his
father, the Colonel of the Nelson Battn. said: “Your son was a keen and
zealous officer and was doing splendidly.” He _m._ Edinburgh, 11
July, 1914, Isabel Esmé (23, Dean Park Crescent, Edinburgh), yr. dau.
of James Cornwall, late Postmaster-General of the United Provinces,
India, and left a dau., Helen Valerie, _b._ 18 April, 1915.
[Illustration: =Mungo Campbell Gibson.=]
=GIBSON, ROBERT=, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, Capt., 2nd
Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, eldest _s._ of James Gibson,
of 28, Park Gardens North, Glasgow, M.A., late Headmaster of Woodside
Higher Grade School, Glasgow; by his wife, Grace, dau. of William Gott;
_b._ Glasgow, 30 Nov. 1885; educ. Glasgow High School, and Glasgow
University, where he graduated with First Class Honours in Classics
in 1908. He gained the Snell Exhibition and Newlands Scholarship and
entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated at the end of his
course with First Class in Moderations and Greats, and was elected
a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol. He was a member of the O.T.C. there,
and when war broke out, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn.
K.O.S.B. 15 Aug. 1914, and was afterwards attd. to the 2nd Battn. He
was promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. ... and was killed in action
near Hill 60, 5–6 May, 1915; _unm._ Lieut. Gibson was mentioned in
F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette,
17 Feb.] 1915.
=GIDNEY, EDWIN=, Engineer Sub-Lieut., H.M.S. Empress of Russia,
R.N.R., _s._ of Charles Gidney, of Jarrow-on-Tyne, Builder, by
his wife, Isabella, dau. of William Allison, of Sunderland, Engineer;
_b._ Jarrow, 23 Dec. 1873; educ. Higher Grade School there;
and served his apprenticeship at Messrs. Palmer’s Engineering
and Shipbuilding Works, where he was highly esteemed and gained
considerable experience in destroyers and torpedo boats. He was
afterwards a Marine Engineer, and was latterly employed by the C.P.R.
After the outbreak of war he was appointed to H.M. Armed Merchant
Cruiser Empress of Russia, and died on her 10 June, 1915, from syncope,
following wounds received in action while serving in the Persian Gulf;
_unm._ He was buried at sea with full naval honours.
[Illustration: =Edwin Gidney.=]
=GIFFORD, GEORGE EDWARD=, Leading Stoker (C.G.), 300296 (Devon.),
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=GIGG, HENRY ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1293), 206559, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=GILBANK, CHARLES=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 112085, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GILBERT, JAMES WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2362, 7th Battn. The
Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Horace Gilbert, of Lower
Edmonton, Cabdriver, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Locke;
_b._ Holborn, London, 26 Oct. 1882; educ. Holborn Council
School; worked for some time as an engraver in Fetter Lane, and was
then for three years a Packer at Gamage’s, and then for two years at
Selfridge’s, leaving there to enlist on the outbreak of War in Aug.
1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action there, 25
Aug. 1915. He was buried in the Beauchamp Military Cemetery (Grave No.
47). His Lieut. wrote: “I had known him for the whole time he had been
in the Battn. and one could not have wished for a better or a braver
soldier.” He _m._ at Holborn, 25 Sept. 1904, Clarissa (4, Studd’s
Cottages, Montague Road, Edmonton, N.), dau. of James Wright, and had
issue: Horace Bert William, _b._ 30 Nov. 1914; Mary Elizabeth,
_b._ 22 Jan. 1906; Dora, _b._ 16 June, 1908; Eugene Margaret,
_b._ 11 Dec. 1909; and Ada Martha, _b._ 1 July, 1912.
[Illustration: =James William Gilbert.=]
=GILBERT, NELSON=, Sapper, No. 2167, R.E., _s._ of Nelson
Gilbert, of 31, Waterloo Road, Tonbridge, Carpenter, by his wife,
Ellen, dau. of George Longley; _b._ Cranbrook, co. Kent, 20 March,
1895; educ. Council School there; was a Grocer’s Assistant; enlisted
19 April, 1915; left England, 11 Oct. 1915, and was drowned on H.M.S.
Hythe, 28 Oct. 1915; _unm._
=GILBERT, WILFRED VALENTINE=, Sub-Lieut., Royal Naval Division,
3rd _s._ of the late John Brettell Gilbert, of Longfleet House,
Poole, co. Dorset, formerly of Chadwick Manor, co. Warwick, by his
wife, Sara Elizabeth (Ferndene, Parkstone, co. Dorset), dau. of John
Suckling; _b._ Abergwynant, Dolgelly, North Wales, 2 March,
1889; educ. Eastmans, Southsea; and when War broke out, was a member
of the staff of the Rio Tinto Co. in Spain. He immediately returned
to England and was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, 7
Oct. 1914, and joined the Nelson Battn. He was with the first party to
land in Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, and was four times wounded whilst
carrying ammunition to the firing line, and was killed in action at
the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915, whilst superintending the digging of a
trench linking up the firing line of the Naval Division and the 42nd
Division, the enemy trench at that time being about 250 yards distant,
and about 1,200 yards S.S.W. of Achi Baba, or about ... S.S.E. of
Krithia. On this occasion they had gallantly gone to the support of
the Lancashire Division, which had advanced further ahead and now
found itself exposed to an enfilade fire. The Nelson men got between
the enfilading Turks, and the right of the Lancashire Division joined
up the line and dug themselves in under fire on a front of about 500
yards. The trench was completed that night, and was for a time a
permanent force of our front line. He was buried in the rear of this
position in a small burial ground at the back of the Reserve Trenches;
_unm._ His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. Evelegh, wrote of
him, and of his brother, Sub-Lieut. Robert Evelyn Gilbert, who was
severely wounded: “The loss of these two good officers was a severe
blow to the battn. I always said W. V. had a charmed life. He was
wounded through the nose on the 3rd May. On the 1st June he had a very
narrow escape, a large shell bursting within a few yards of him. I am
glad to say he was unhurt. On the morning of the 4th June he was shot
through the head whilst superintending some work in the firing line.
His death was almost instantaneous.” He was very fond of painting, and
exhibited several of his pictures in Spain. His seven brothers are
all serving. Commander Archibald Gilbert, R.N., has specialised in
gunnery and is at present on Sir Percy Scott’s Staff for the Defence
of London; 2nd. Lieut. Vivian Gilbert, Machine-gun Corps, is at the
Front; Lieut. Robert Evelyn Gilbert, R.N.V.R., was seriously wounded in
Gallipoli, since recovery transferred to the Admiralty; Lieut. Gilbert
Richard Gilbert, R.N.R., in command of H.M. Torpedo Boat 077; Lieut.
Guy Gilbert, 7th Dorset Regt. attd. to Royal Flying Corps; Lieut.
Geoffrey Gilbert, R.N.V.R., Nelson Battn. Royal Naval Division, now at
the Front; Private Garnett Gilbert, Inns of Court O.T.C., at present
stationed at Berkhampstead.
[Illustration: =Wilfred Valentine Gilbert.=]
=GILBEY, ERIC=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade, yr. _s._
of Sir Walter Gilbey, 2nd Bart., by his wife, Ella, dau. of the late
John Coutts Fowlie, of Surbiton; _b._ London, 26 Dec. 1888;
educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; joined the Grenadier Guards in 1910, but
afterwards resigned. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted Lieut.
in the 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 23 Oct 1914; went to the Front with
the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March,
1915; _unm._ Writing to Sir Walter Gilbey, Corpl. W. Smith said:
“I am proud to say that I was in Lieut. Gilbey’s platoon from the
day he joined us until the time he fell, a few feet from my side. We
considered ourselves, with your son as our leader, the luckiest platoon
in the regt., if not in the whole Army. He was just like a father to
us, and our interests were always his first thought. Each one of us
would have followed him in the most forlorn hope, had he wanted us.
He was the bravest man I ever saw, and I am sure you will know by now
that it was while performing a brave deed that he fell. When we had
made the charge at 2 p.m. on 12 March, we were met by the most awful
fire of shells and bullets, and Lieut. Gilbey was the first to leap
over the parapet, and shouted to us to make for another parapet 100
yards in front. Lots of men fell in that 100 yards, but Lieut. Gilbey,
Sergt. Rann, the majority of the men and myself reached cover safely.
The next instant I happened to look round, and there was your son, who
had run back for about 10 yards, in the open. He was bending over a
young fellow, and the next second he fell. I am sure there never was
more feeling shown over the fall of an officer than there was by No. 10
Platoon. He had been badly wounded some hours previously, but refused
to go to the dressing-room, and so home to England invalided, saying,
‘Where my men go, I go.’”
[Illustration: =Eric Gilbey.=]
=GILBEY, WILLIAM EDWARD=, A.B., 221975, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=GILBRIDE, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5154), 210720, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GILCHRIST, ROBERT CROOKS=, Capt., 46th Punjabis, Indian Army,
yr. _s._ of Brig.-Gen. Robert Alexander Gilchrist, Indian Army;
_b._ Aurangabad, Deccan, India, 24 June, 1878; educ. Dover College
and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he passed with honours;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, 4 Aug. 1897, promoted Lieut. 4 Nov.
1899, and Capt. 4 Aug. 1906. He was appointed to the 33rd Punjabis,
and afterwards to the 46th Punjabis when that regt. was raised. Served
for five years with the Burma Military Police, and took part in two
frontier expeditions, and was awarded the King’s Police Medal for
service in the Burmo-China Boundary Delimitation Commission. When war
broke out he was attached to the 59th Scinde Rifles in France, and
was killed in action at La Bassée, 19 Dec. 1914, when most gallantly
leading a storming party up a German sap under heavy fire. He was
buried in Beuvry Cemetery, near Bethune; _unm._ Writing to his
father, Major T. L. Leeds, commanding 59th Scinde Rifles, said: “Your
son was killed yesterday morning in a night attack on the German
trenches. He was most gallantly leading a storming party up a German
sap under heavy fire when he was hit in the head by a rifle bullet and
killed at once. He was officiating as my second in command, and was an
exceptionally able and gallant officer, and he is a great loss to us,”
and Col. J. ffrench Mullen, Deputy Inspector-General Military Police,
Burma, wrote: “He served under me in the Myitkyina Battn. for five
years and on two expeditions, so I had occasion to know of his sterling
qualities and character.... I have never heard anything but the most
kindly mention of him, and his death is mourned by his old battn., the
Military Police.”
[Illustration: =Robert Crooks Gilchrist.=]
=GILDERTHORP, HARRY STANLEY=, L-Corpl., No. 9771, 1st Battn. Royal
Warwickshire Regt., _s._ of Benjamin Gilderthorp, of Birmingham,
National Reserve, late Sergt., 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt.;
_b._ Hockley Hill, Birmingham, 3 Oct. 1886; educ. Lozells Street
Board School there; enlisted in Nov. 1903; transferred to the Reserve
in 1906; was called up on mobilisation, Aug. 1914; went to France with
the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 2 May,
1915. He _m._ at Sparkbrook, Birmingham, 6 Aug. 1910, Alice, dau.
of William (and Alice) Herrick, and had two children: Harry Stanley,
_b._ 8 Aug. 1912, and Doris May, _b._ 18 May, 1911.
[Illustration: =Harry S. Gilderthorp.=]
=GILES, FRANK WILLIAM=, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., B. 9960),
201561, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GILES, JAMES=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 1866), 160023, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914;
_m._
=GILES, SIDNEY=, Leading Stoker, K. 1042, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GILES, SIDNEY DUNCAN=, Private, No. 707, 1st Battn. (Royal
Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.); educ. St. John’s School, Red Lion
Square, Holborn, London; joined the 1st London Regt., and died 13 July,
1915, of wounds received in action; buried in the Military Cemetery,
Bailleul (Grave No. 1488). He _m._ at All Saints’ Church,
Caledonian Road, London, Isabella, dau. of (--), and had a son and a
dau.: Sidney Walton, _b._ 14 Aug. 1908; and Dorothy Constance,
_b._ 1 Aug. 1914.
=GILHAM, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7611), 102992,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=GILL, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8734 (Po.),
H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GILL, GEORGE ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8912), S.S.
105666, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GILLAM, CECIL THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7686), S.S.
103002, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GILLARD, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5641), 191989, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GILFILLAN, JOHN ALFRED ALISON=, Private, No. 2528, 14th Battn.
(The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Archibald
MacAlpine Gilfillan, of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, by his wife,
Mary Elliott, dau. of John Brown; _b._ Edinburgh, 9 Sept. 1881;
educ. Tollington Park College, and Finsbury Technical College, and
was an electrical engineer by profession. He had joined the London
Scottish, rising to the rank of Corpl., but had to retire in 1910,
owing to pressure of work. On the outbreak of war, however, he rejoined
in Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 13 Sept. 1914, and was wounded and
taken prisoner at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914, and died a prisoner of war at
Gustrow, Mecklenburg, 6 Dec. following; _unm._
=GILLESPIE, ALEXANDER DOUGLAS=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Princess
Louise’s (93rd) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, elder and only
surviving _s._ (see next column) of Thomas Paterson Gillespie,
of Longcroft, Linlithgow, by his wife, Elizabeth Hall, dau. of Thomas
Chalmers, of Longcroft, and gdson. of the late Alexander Gillespie,
of Biggar Park, co. Lanark; _b._ at Woolaston, co. Gloucester,
23 June, 1889, and was educ. Cargilfield and Winchester College, for
which latter he took a scholarship, winning among other honours while
there, the King’s Gold and the King’s Silver Medals; passed on from
Winchester to New College, Oxford, again with a scholarship, and also
an exhibition, and there in 1910 proved himself the 1st Classical
Scholar of his year by taking the much-coveted Ireland and 1st
Craven Scholarships. On leaving Oxford he travelled for nine months,
visiting East Africa, China, Korea, Japan, and returning by Canada
and the United States. When war broke out he was reading for the
Bar, International Law being the branch which he hoped ultimately to
follow. Some months previously he had joined the Inns of Court Cavalry,
but impatient of delay in getting a commission in a Cavalry Regt. he
enlisted in the 4th Seaforth Highlanders, and after training with them
at Bedford for two months, was given a commission in the 4th (Extra
Reserve) Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 21 Oct. 1914.
He went to the Front, Feb. 1915, being there attd. to the 2nd Battn.,
and was killed in action near La Bassée, 25 Sept. 1915, being seen to
fall on reaching the German trench, the only officer to get there. He
was _unm._
[Illustration: =Alexander D. Gillespie.=]
=GILLESPIE, FRANKLIN MACAULAY=, Lt.-Col., 4th (Service) Battn.
South Wales Borderers, 2nd _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Franklin Gillespie,
of Health Hollow, Camberley, R.A.M.C., by his wife, Harriet Eliza
Phillis, dau. of the late General Sampson Freeth, R.E., and granddau.
of General Sir James Freeth, K.C.B., K.H.; _b._ Colchester, 19
Aug. 1872; educ. Dover College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd. Lieut.
South Wales Borderers, 25 July, 1891; and promoted Lieut. 22 Feb. 1893,
Capt. 6 March, 1898, and Major, 26 Sept. 1909. He was on special extra
regimental duty from 14 Nov. 1896 to 5 April, 1897, and from 5 Feb.
1898 to 31 March, 1900, was employed with the West African Frontier
Force; was sent up the Niger on Special Service in 1897 to Egbon, Bida,
and Ilorin, when the growing menace of the great slave-trading Fulah
Power threatened to drive us into the sea. He was in the fight at the
capture of the capital of Nupe and the subjugation of the smaller
States, and was awarded the medal with three clasps. He then served in
Borgu with the West African Frontier Force, 1897–8, being mentioned in
Despatches [London Gazette, 2 Jan. 1900], and receiving medal with a
clasp. He remained with them until March, 1900, when he rejoined his
regt. and went to South Africa, and served through that campaign. He
was Commandant at Roodeval Spruit to 10 Feb. 1901, and took part in
the operations in the Orange Free State, July, 1900 to June, 1901, and
in the Transvaal, June, 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three
clasps and King’s medal with two clasps). After the war he was Adjutant
of the 5th Volunteer Battn. (now the 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers) of
his regt. from 18 April, 1903 to 14 July, 1908, at Newtown, and on
relinquishing this appointment, was posted to the 2nd Battn. at
Aldershot, later going with it to Chatham and Pretoria, South Africa.
He next joined the 1st Battn. and returned to Chatham, and from Feb.
to Aug. 1914, was in Command of the Regimental Depôt at Brecon. After
the outbreak of war he was appointed (19 Aug. 1914) to the Command of
the 4th (Service) Battn. and went with it to the Dardanelles, 30 June,
1915. He was killed in action there, 9 Aug. 1915, and was buried in the
39th Field Ambulance Cemetery. Col. Gillespie _m._ at Newtown,
Montgomeryshire, 27 July, 1905, Agnes Rose (Bromley, Camberley), dau.
of Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones, of Dolerw, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and
had issue, two sons and a dau.: Rollo Franklin Freeth, _b._ 11
Feb. 1910; Henry Pryce, _b._ 16 April, 1913; and Phillis Eleanor,
_b._ 5 Sept. 1915. His brother, Lieut.-Col. E. C. F. Gillespie,
C.B., A.S.C., is now (1916) on active service.
[Illustration: =Franklin M. Gillespie.=]
=GILLESPIE, NORMAN ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 27342, 15th Battn.
(48th Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. _s._ of the
late Johnston Hunter Gillespie, of The Mount, Belfast, by his wife,
Mary Clarke (Eastbourne Cottage, Whitehead), dau. of Hugh McAlery;
_b._ Rathfriland, co. Down, 14 Jan. 1892; educ. Methodist College
and Queen’s University, Belfast. He accepted a post in the Canadian
Bank of Commerce, Toronto, where he remained until the outbreak of the
war. He immediately volunteered and enlisted, 15 Aug., 1914; came over
with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to the Front, Feb. 1915,
and died a prisoner of war in a German Hospital at Oostnieukerke, 25
April, 1915, from wounds received at the Second Battle of Ypres. He was
buried in Oostnieukerke Churchyard; _unm._ Capt. McLaren wrote:
“Norman always did his duty, and he was one of the best men I had, he
was in the first line trenches on 24th April. I got wounded, and so
lost sight of him.” Sergt. Wells also wrote: “I was Norman’s platoon
Sergt. and I can assure you Norman always did his duty and was never in
trouble with anyone.” Private Gillespie was a very fine baritone and
his teacher predicted a great future for him.
[Illustration: =Norman A. Gillespie.=]
=GILLESPIE, THOMAS CUNNINGHAM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own
Scottish Borderers, yst. _s._ (see preceding column) of Thomas
Paterson Gillespie, of Longcroft, Linlithgow, by his wife, Elizabeth
Hall, dau. of Thomas Chalmers, of Longcroft, and gdson. of the late
Alexander Gillespie, of Biggar Park, co. Lanark; _b._ Alvington,
co. Gloucester, 14 Dec. 1892; educ. Cargilfield School, Cramond Bridge;
Winchester College, and New College, Oxford, where he took his degree
in June, 1914. Both at Winchester and Oxford he was a keen member of
the O.T.C. He obtained a University commission, 29 July, 1914, and was
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Scottish Borderers, 4 Aug. 1914,
and after three weeks’ service at home, joined his regt. in France in
time to share in the advance from the Marne. He was for 17 days in the
trenches at Missy-sur-Aisne, on the northern bank of the River Aisne,
exposed night and day to the enemy’s fire from their heavy guns, and
afterwards took part in the advance to the Belgian frontier, and was
killed in action, near La Bassée, 8 Oct. 1914; _unm._ It was 2nd
Lieut. Gillespie’s great desire to win a commission in a Scottish
regt., and his last letter spoke with pride of the praise which the
Scottish Borderers had received from Sir Charles Ferguson, commanding
the 5th Division, “all the prouder of us because we were all Scotsmen.”
He was a fine athlete, rowed three years in the New College Eight,
and twice had the satisfaction of keeping his boat at the head of the
River; also, he represented the United Kingdom in the New College
Olympic Crew at Stockholm in 1912.
[Illustration: =Thomas C. Gillespie.=]
=GILLESPIE, ANDREW=, Private, No. 8107, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc; killed in action at
Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915.
=GILLESPIE, WILLIAM JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10369),
S.S. 107919, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the
North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=GILLHAM, BENJAMIN=, L.-Corpl., No. S. 64, 2nd Battn. Royal West
Surrey Regt., served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
killed in action, 16 May, 1915; _m._
=GILLINGHAM, FRANK=, Private, No. 10234, 1st Battn. Royal West
Kent Regt., _s._ of William Gillingham, of 9, Little Preston
Street, Brighton; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
killed in action, 18 April, 1915.
=GILLS, GEORGE=, Sapper, No. 102480, Royal Engineers, 2nd
_s._ of John Gills, of Bishop Auckland, Miner, by his wife,
Margaret, dau. of George Etherington, of Bishop Auckland; _b._
Bishop Auckland, co. Durham, 1 Aug. 1871; educ. Board School there; was
employed at the Hylton Colliery; enlisted 4 June, 1915; was sent to
the Front at once, and was killed in action, 2 Aug. 1915, being buried
in the Canadian Cemetery at St. Eloi, Belgium. He _m._ at St.
Mary’s. South Shields, Isabella Ann (Clive Street, Southwick-on-Wear),
dau. of William Stevenson, of Seaham, and had six children: John
William, _b._ 19 Dec. 1893; George, _b._ 13 July, 1898;
Robert, _b._ 2 March, 1913; Margaret Jane, _b._ 29 Oct. 1891;
Isabella, _b._ 16 April, 1899; and Emily, _b._ 4 June, 1903.