Name
Stephen Smith Gilbert
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/01/1915
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
9111
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
“A” Company, 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAMBURG CEMETERY
III. A. 1.
Germany
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 19 Jul 1890 in Nottingham son of Samuel George and Eliza Maria Gilbert later of 17 Powis Road, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1901-05.
Wartime Service
Joined the Army in 1908 at Preston, Lancashire, entered France at Rouen on 13 Aug 1914 and survived action at Mons and Ypres. He was captured at Hooge probably on 2 Nov 1914 and died in Germany in Güstrow prisoner of war camp from pneumonia.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
