Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Sainte-Marie Cemetery | Le Havre | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.124 | |
Awards & Titles: | Distinguished Service Order | ||
Family :
Son of the late Rev. Richard Shard Gubbins; husband of Agnes Edith Gubbins, of The Old Hall, Rockcliffe, Cumberland.Education & Career :
Haileybury School
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: King's Shropshire Light Infantry |
| Action : France & Flanders |
France & Flanders covers all the dates and corresponding locations which are outside the official battle nomenclature dates on the Western Front. Therefore the actions in which these men died could be considered 'normal' trench duty - the daily attrition losses which were an everyday fact of duty on the Western Front.
Detail :
A memorial in Plot 62 marks the graves of 24 casualties from the hospital ship 'Salta' and her patrol boat, sunk by a mine on 10 April 1917. The memorial also commemorates by name the soldiers, nurses and merchant seamen lost from the 'Salta' whose bodies were not recovered, and those lost in the sinking of the hospital ship 'Galeka' (mined on 28 October 1916) and the transport ship 'Normandy' (torpedoed on 25 January 1918), whose graves are not known For a previous thread on the Normandy, see http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...showtopic=65574 see http://www.haileybury.herts.sch.uk/archive...918%20-%209.htm for details of his South African service - wounded Paardesberg, Mentioned in Dispatches, Queen?s medal 3 Clasps, King?s Medal 2 clasps, and a photograph of him as Captain He was also the author, with C R B Barrett, of 85th King's Light Infantry. quote: [GUBBINS, (Richard Rolls)] & BARRETT (C[harles], R[aymond], B[ooth]) [ed.] THE KING'S SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY (Now 2nd Battn. The King's Shropshire Light Infantry). By One of Them. 4to. Coloured frontispiece and ten other coloured plates, thirty-one other plates, maps and illustrations to the text. A very good copy in the original half morocco, gilt, xx, 552pp. Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., 1913 Maj. Rolls (sic) saw extensive service with the Regiment in the Boer War. He retired in 1908 but was recalled in 1914 acting as Assistant Adjutant and Quarter-master General with the BEF, he died in 1918. see also http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/...ollofhonour.htm file ADM 137/4009 from National Archives gives the numbers lost for NORMANDY: The SS Normandy, defensively armed, built 1910, 618 grt, was torpedoed and sunk 8 miles ExN from Cap de la Hague, France 49.46N, 01.44W by German submarine U 90 with the loss of 14 of her crew. She was carrying a general cargo and mail on voyage from Southampton to Cherbourg and was owned by London & South Western Railway Co of Southampton. 14 crew and 13 passengers dead, 6 crew and 7 passengers rescued http://www.haileybury.herts.sch.uk/archives/roll/HAILEYBURY%201918%20-%209.htm OLD HAILEYBURIANS WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Phoenix No. 257 E.C. | Hampshire & IOW |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
23rd February 1898 | 23rd March 1898 | 24th June 1898 |
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