6451: Joseph Gibbs

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posted on 2024-01-15, 09:04 authored by Lest We Forget Project Team

Joseph was a private in the Essex Regiment Royal Fusiliers. He took a bullet through the thigh in 1917 and was invalided out of the war, ambulanced back to the UK. He survived, and died in 1959.

History

Name of contributor(s)

Alan Gibbs

Subject of the story/individual the object(s) relate to

Joseph Gibbs

Date(s) the event(s) in the story took place

1914-1918

Location(s) where the event(s) in the story took place

Unknown

Object(s)

Medals x 4: -Silver and gold circular of the Essex Regiment -3 row medal inscribed 'Gibbs, Royal Fusiliers' -Two crossed rifles -Cap badge, with broken clasp Photograph of Gibbs with his mother in the summer of 1950 Knife from the US that Gibbs obtained during his service during the war, and which is now part of the family DIY took kit