Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Exeter Higher Cemetery | E. 36438. | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.123 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 51B GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Education & Career :
Surveyor, Maidenhead (1912).
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: 14/Worcestershire Regiment |
14th (Service) Battalion (Severn Valley Pioneers) Formed at Worcester on 10 September 1915 by Lieut-Col. H. Webb, MP. Adopted by War Office in March 1916. Moved to Larkhill and Codford. Landed at Le Havre 21 June 1916 and attached to 63rd (Royal Naval) Division. |
| Action : Natural Causes |
Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.
Detail :
2Lt Percy Roland GIBBS 14th Bn (Severn Valley Pioneers). Died in the UK 17/3/16. The 14th Bn were in Larkhill and then Codford (both on Salisbury Plain) training during the spring of 1916. They crossed over to France in June 1916 as Pioneer Battalion of the Royal Naval Division. GIBBS is buried in Exeter, presumably having been hospitalised there. The assumption is that he died of natural causes but we would welcome further information. There is a plaque in the Temple of Commercial Temperance Lodge in Windsor, Berkshire inscribed with the names of those members of the lodge who served during the Great War, with the two of them identified as killed. One is Percy GIBBS. In 1916 Grand Lodge asked all Lodges to subscribe to the ' Xmas Puddings for the Troops at the front' fund. Initially agreeing to this, Commercial Temperance afterwards adopted a more personal approach by sending a one guinea (?40) hamper for each of its serving members on the front line. Sgt. Frogley. a recipient of a hamper, wrote to the lodge saying that his men welcomed the touch of home comfort that the hamper's arrival gave them. The lodge also subscribed to the following charities; HRH the princess Mary's Sailors & Soldiers Christams fund (1915), National Committee for relief in Belgium Fund (1915) YMCA war emergency fund The Lord Roberts Memorial fund for disabled Soldiers & Sailors Wounded Allies Relief fund British Red Cross Belgium Masonic Relief fund Ruhleten (Germany) Civilian Internment Camp Smokes for Soldiers & Sailors Masonic Million Memorial Fund ( for the Masonic Peace memorial ) Sources; Chris Kingdon John Cotterell
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Commercial Temperance No. 3144 E.C. | Berkshire |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
2nd March 1912 | 13th April 1912 | 5th October 1912 |
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley