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Private Percival Alfred GIBSON, S/1163,  8th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 18th April 1915, age 42.

11th May 1872, born 1 Marlborough Street, Greenwich, Kent, son of Thomas Gibson.

14th May 1898, St Luke, Deptford, Percival Alfred Gibson, age 26, bachelor, labourer, ?? Croft? Road, father, William Gibson, deceased married  Annie Louisa Law, age 25, spinster, 3 Bisson? Street, New Cross, fatherThomas George Law, deceased.

Children - 24th January 1900, Edith Louisa Gibson, born Greenwich; 10th June 1903, Percival George Gibson, born Lewisham; 13th June 1905, Beatrice Mary Gibson, born 7 Brewery Cottages, Westerham, Sevenoaks, Kent; 24th November 1907, Henrietta Amelia Gibson, born Workhouse, 390 High Street, Lewisham; 24th December 1909, George William Gibson, born 111 Carlton Street, North St Pancras, London; 18th January 1912, Thomas Alfred Gibson, born 62 Crogsland Road, Chalk Farm, Camden Town, West Street, St Pancras; 17th April 1914, Louisa Annie Gibson, born 32 Litcham Street, North Pancras, London.


1911 Census - 62 Crogsland Road, London NW - Percival Alfred Gibson, head, age 39, married, stage operator, music hall, born Greenwich; Annie Louisa Gibson, wife, age 38, married 13 years, 6 children, 5 still alive, born City; Edith Louisa Gibson, daughter, age 11, school, born Greenwich; Percival George Gibson, son, age 7, school, born Lewisham; Beatrice May Gibson, daughter, age 5, born Westerham; Henrietta Amelia Gibson, daughter, age 3, born Lewisham; George William Gibson, son, age 1, born St Pancras.


Enlisted London.  Resided 22, Cloudsley Road, Islington, London / Kentish Town, London, NW.

8th April 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at  Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery,  VIII. K. 7., Belgium.


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