Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Bridgnorth
- Town
- Billingsley
- County
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 26 March 1922
Attended by: Rev J L Williams
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 14034
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Current location
ST MARYS CHURCH
Billingsley
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
WV16 6PH
England
OS Grid Ref: SO 70424 85391
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- A plain white marble tablet with a black border. It has a regimental badge at the top centre, and black lettering. His battlefield cross hangs alongside.
- Inscription
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ LIEUT. HAROLD WALTER GIBBS/ SHROPSHIRE R.H.A./ WHO WAS WOUNDED AT ARRAS, FRANCE, MARCH 25, 1918, AND/ DIED THE SAME DAY, AGED 24, AND WAS BURIED/ AT AGNEZ-LES-DUISANT./ HE SERVED FROM THE FIRST DAY OF THE WAR, AND WAS/ THE FIRST FROM THIS PARISH TO SACRIFICE HIS LIFE/ "I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Gibbs, Harold Walter
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,place of burial,manner of death,age of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- First World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White
- First World War memorial
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Lieutenant HW Gibbs Memorial Plaque
- WMO ID: 257872
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 19-02-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- 'Billingsley Memorial Service', Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News, 1 April 1922, p. 5.
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