William Bernard Gibney
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William Bernard Gibney was the son of James William Bernard Gibney and Jane Wright who married at Wolverhampton in 1874. Among their children were: Bernard Patrick (b.1875), Joseph Edward (b.1876/d.1878), William Bernard (b.1878), John Joseph (b.1879), Theresa Agnes (b.1882), Mary Patricia (b.1883), Irene Jane (b.1891) and Agnes (b.1893). The family lived at: 6 Park Terrace, All Saints Parish , Birmingham [C.1881]; 34 Hall Street, Birmingham [C.1891]; 75 Woodborough Road, St Ann’s [C.1901] and 61 Gamble Street, Nottingham [C.1911]. James William Bernard Gibney, who gained employment as an electro-plater [C.1901], died at Nottingham, aged 54, in 1907. His widow, Jane, died at Nottingham, aged 86 in 1936. In 1905 William Bernard Gibney married Ellen Love at Nottingham. Their children included: Kathlene Irene (b.1906), John William (b.1908), Albert Edward (b.1911/d.1912) and Theresa Agnes (b.1914). They lived at 15 Florence Terrace, Pinder’s House Road, Meadows, Nottingham [C.1911]; 11 Kennington Road, Radford [Army records/1919]. In 1920 Ellen Gibney married George H. Kirk at Nottingham. She died at Nottingham, aged 58 in 1944.
He enlisted on 13 February 1915 at Nottingham; joined the 1st Bn. King’s Royal Rifles out at the front on 19 June 1915; went down with enteritis on 6 September 1916; taken to hospital suffering with pneumonia 18 March 1917, transferred first to a hospital in Rouen and subsequently sent back to England on 29 March 1917 where he was treated for twenty three days at Cyngfeld VAD Hospital, Kingsland, Shrewsbury with a further ten days at the Wellington Infirmary Hospital in Shropshire; following his recovery he went back to France on 16 June 1917; posted to the 21st Bn. King’s Royal Rifles on 10 July 1917; suffered a wound to his arm and the effects of a gas shell attack on 31 July 1917; sent back to England on 8 August 1917 and the next twenty one days were spent at the Norfolk War Hospital, Thorpe, Norwich being treated for the gas attack, followed by a further thirty six days at the Red Cross Hospital at Garholdisham also in Norfolk; he went back to France on 28 November 1917; joined the 1st Bn. King’s Royal Rifles on 16 March 1918; lengthy spells in various hospitals in France covering the period from 14 April 1918 to 13 July 1918 being treated for various medical conditions including diarrhoea; transferred to the 172nd Company Labour Corps [Service No.633106] on 22 September 1918; on 19 January 1919 posted to the 44th Company Labour Corps; eventually sent back to England on February 1919 for eventual demobilisation at Clipstone Camp; transferred to the Army Reserve and demobilised on 10 March 1919; died at 11 Kennington Road, Radford on 17 July 1919; buried at the General Cemetery, Nottingham.
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