Harry Gilbert DCM
Died:
23 Tishri 5679 (29 September 1918)
Basic Information
Death
Date of death:
23 Tishri 5679 (29 September 1918)
Place of death:
Cambrai, France
Burial place:
FLESQUIERES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
Places
Addresses
Parents' home:
Upper Hope Place Liverpool
Married home :
32 Upper Stanhope Street Liverpool
Relationship with wife Florence according to grandson Peter
Family legend
“With my grandmother, it was like a love story,” says Peter.
“She never married again and she always lived with us.
“In the 1960s, which was the first time we went to the battlefields, she couldn’t bring herself to go.
“I was 22 when she died and there was a sadness about her all her life. She never talked about him. The only thing she said was that if he’d come back, they were going to live in America.”
He adds: “I’m incredibly proud of him.”
-From article in Liverpool Echo, 2014
Family
Military Record
Military record no.:
68690
Date enlisted/conscripted:
19 August 1914
Date discharged/death:
29 September 1918
Rank at discharge/death:
Lance Bombadier
Assignments
Regiment:
Royal Field Artillery
Battalion/unit:
20th Bty. 9th Bde.
Posting:
India, Mesopotamia and France
Medals:
DCM - Distinguished Conduct Medal
Roll of Honour
H. GILBERT, 29 September 1918
Commonwealth Graves Commission
Date of Death:
29 September 1918
Regiment / service:
Royal Field Artillery, 20th Bty. 9th Bde.
Cemetery:
Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery, France
Grave reference:
VIII. G. 1.
Personal inscription:
SADLY MISSED BY MOTHER, WIFE & DAUGHTER UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS
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