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Private Joseph Gibson

 

 

Joseph Gibson enlisted in the North Irish Horse in November 1915 (Service No.1966). He arrived in France as a reinforcement in 1916 or 1917. In September 1917 he was transferred the 9th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (Service No.41413) and was posted to A Company. Following the German offensive in March 1918 he was listed as missing. It was later learned that he had been made a prisoner of war.

Image and text from the Belfast Evening Telegraph, May 1918, kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice).