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Part of 97th Brigade, 32nd Division which arrived in France in November 1915. The battalion took part in the first day of the Battle of the Somme sustaining heavy casualties.  They went into action again on the morning of 18th November during the Battle of the Ancre and again suffered heavy casualties while making an unsuccessful attack on Munich Trench during the attack on Beaumont-Hamel.

March 1881, Glasgow

Died of wounds
McGibbon was wounded during the attack on the 18th November but was retrieved from the battlefield and sent to one of the major base hospitals at Etaples where he died just over a fortnight later. It is a puzzle why, if he survived that long, he was not evacuated to England.

His headstone bears the phrase ’Loving and Loved’ which was chosen and paid for by Miss Elizabeth McGibbon of Keyparcloch, Kippen, Stirlingshire. It seems likely that this is his aunt Elizabeth who kept house for her widowed brother for many years.

Son of Archibald and Margaret Rrownlie (sic) McGibbon.

Archibald McGibbon (c1847-1912) & Margaret Brownlie (c1849- 24th March 1881)

Cashier

Only child

Unmarried

Not known

Clerk

Father, Archibald, is staying with his brother and sister at Fore Road, Kippen, Stirlingshire

Not known

38 Norfolk Street, Gorbals, Glasgow
Baby John McGibbon, who is probably less than a month old, is being cared for by his maternal grandparents, John and Jane Brownlie, while his newly widowed father is living with his own mother at 361 Crown Street, Hutchesontown, Glasgow

Victoria Terrace, Cathcart

395 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

Kippen War Memorial

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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