Gibson, Frederick Crowdy

Gosford District Casualties of World War One Bragg, Edmund Allen Gibson, Frederick Crowdy

Service Number Number 5378 1494 Service Killed Action 19th May 1918 1915 Killed inin Action 8th August Gallipoli Peninsula France

Gosford City Council gratefully acknowledges the voluntary efforts of Benalyn Campbell And Vivienne Tranter in compiling this resource

The information in this file has been extracted from official records held in the The Australian War Memorial and National Archives of Australia (ÂŠ Commonwealth of Australia [National Archives of Australia] 2013) Further information on this soldier may be found online at: Commonwealth War Graves The AIF project Content advisory: This file may potentially contain disturbing accounts of service-related injury and death, disease and family grief. Adult supervision is recommended for children using these resources. Individual files should be viewed within the context provided by wider research on service conditions in the 1st AIF. This resource is presented by Gosford City Council for research purposes only. Please note that copyright for resources contained within remains with the original copyright owners.

NAME

Gibson, Frederick Crowdy

SERVICE NO

5378

UNIT

13th Battalion/ 17th Rienf.

RANK

Private

AGE at Enlistment

21 yrs

PLACE OF BIRTH

Cooma, NSW

ADDRESS OCCUPATION

Labourer

DATE OF ENLISTMENT

13 Nov 1915

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

Goulburn, NSW

PREVIOUS SERVICE NEXT OF KIN

Father;- E Gibson, “Glenroy”, Ourimbah

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Height-5’ 9½”. Weight-150lbs. Chest-34”. Complexion-Fair. Eyes-Blue. Hair-L Brown. Scar-1” front of R/Thigh.

RELIGION

R/C

EMBARKED

Sydney 9 Apr 1916 per HMAT A71 “Nestor”.

DISEMBARKED NOTES

13 Oct 1917- Belgium, Awarded Military Medal

WOUNDED/ILLNESS

14 Mar 1917- Sick, tonsillitis

DIED

8 Aug 1918- France

BURIED MEDALS

British War Medal-36253, Victory Medal-35976. Memorial Plaque & Scroll-349563.

DEPENDANTS PERSONAL EFFECTS

1 Gun Metal Watch (damaged), 1 Pr Socks, 1 Pr Woollen Gloves/ 1 Wallet, Photos, Cards, Letters/

Sydney Morning Herald 2nd September 1918 pg. 6 ROLL OF HONOR GIBSON;- Killed in action, in France, August 8, 1918, Frederick C Gibson (Crowdy), MM., late stretcher bearer, 13th Battalion. Inserted by his fond cousins. Nell and Babe Pantlin, Banksia.

Gosford Times 5th September 1918 Killed in Action Private Frederick Crowdy Gibson, aged 23 years 8 months was killed in action in France on the 8 th August last. Deceased was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs A Gibson, of Macquarie Farm, Glenfield, late of "Glenroy" Ourimbah. He enlisted at Gosford in 1914, and was attached to 13 th Battalion, D Company, 4th Division. While on active service he was recommended by Major-General Holmes for his plucky work as a stretcherbearer during as attack on the 4 th and 5th February, 1917, and was awarded a Military Medal. On the 14 th November of the same year he was again congratulated by Major-General MacL*gan for pluck and devotion to duty, tending wounded under fire near Zonneluke on September 26, 1917. the deceased soldier was a native of Cooma, Monaro, where his family resided for some years. He was a prominent foot-baller, his Battalion (the 13th) having won six trophies since the advent of the war.

Abridged record/s courtesy of the National Archives of Australia (NAA) Series No: B2455 Item Barcode: 5038586

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