Andrew Buist Lowe Gibson
Rank: Private
Service No: 193062
Place of Birth: Blairgowrie
Date of Death: 08/08/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (15th Bn.)
Cemetery: Hangard Wood British Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gibson of Scotland; husband of Jeannie Gibson of 576 John Street North, Hamilton Ontario, Canada. Native of Blairgowrie, Scotland,
Rutherglen Lore information: 10 Greenbank Street, Rutherglen.
Canadian Attestation Papers information: NOK – Jeanie Gibson, 25 Picton Street West, Hamilton; trade – railway porter.
1901 census information:
Address: 10 Greenbank Street, Rutherglen.
Father: John (36) blacksmith’s hammerman, born about 1865 in Dundee.
Mother: Isabella (38) born about 1863 in Blairgowrie.
Self: Andrew (9) born about 1892 in Blairgowrie.
Sister: Harriet (3) born about 1898 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. Andrew Gibson. On the day following the celebration of his 27tth birthday, Pte. Andrew Gibson, of the 92nd battalion; was a victim of a German bullet, in France. His family at 25 Picton Street West, this morning were the recipients of the sad message announcing that he had been killed in action on August 8.
Enlisting in the 92nd battalion, Pte. Gibson went overseas in May, 1916. Until five months ago he was engaged as a sergeant-instructor in a camp in England, but he reverted to the rank of private to cross to the trenches.
Pte. Gibson was born in Blairgowrie, Scotland, and had resided in this country for 6 1/2 years. He was employed at the G.T.R. freight sheds, and was a member on Knox Presbyterian Church. To mourn his heroic sacrifice he leaves his wife and one child, both parents and a sister, all of whom reside at 25 Picton Street West.
Newspaper transcript – Sergeant A. Gibson (killed), husband of Mrs A Gibson, late of Rutherglen.
Headstone transcript – 193062 Private A. B. L. Gibson 15th BN. Canadian Inf. 8th August 1918 age 28. To the memory of a loving husband and daddy, son and brother.
*Andrew is recorded as sergeant in the newspaper and on the cenotaph.