L/Cpl Gerge GILBERT, d. 04/10/1915

[Stephen Nulty]

L/Cpl George Horace GILBERT, 9706 2 Bn, Royal Scots Fusiliers, who died aged 25 on 04.10.15. Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery, Lincs, UK

CWGC

Name: GILBERT, GEORGE HORACE

Initials: G H

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lance Corporal

Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers

Unit Text: "C" Coy. 2nd Bn.

Age: 25

Date of Death: 04/10/1915

Service No: 9706

Additional information: Son of John and Elizabeth Gilbert, of 102, Bramley Rd., North Kensington, London. Born at Notting Hill, London.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: D. 115A.

Cemetery: LINCOLN (NEWPORT) CEMETERY

During the First World War, the 4th Northern General Hospital was at the Grammar School in Lincoln. the hospital had 1,400 beds and during the course of the war, admissions numbered 45,000. Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery, which was near the hospital, contains 139 First World War burials, almost 90 of them forming a war graves plot. During the Second World War, this plot was extended and most of the 120 burials from this period were made there. The rest of the graves from both wars are scattered throughout the cemetery.