Sjt William John HIBBERT, died 27/10/1918

[Stephen Nulty]

GWF

Sjt William John HIBBERT, 38285 1 Garrison Bn, Cheshire Regt, who died aged 34 on 27.10.18. Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, Gibraltar

CWGC

Name: HIBBERT, WILLIAM JOHN

Initials: W J

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Serjeant

Regiment: Cheshire Regiment

Unit Text: 1st Garrison Bn.

Age: 34

Date of Death: 27/10/1918

Service No: 38285

Additional information: Son of Mrs. Betsy Hibbert, of 21, Hamilton St., Warrington.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: B. 4164.

Cemetery: GIBRALTAR (NORTH FRONT) CEMETERY

Cemetery Information

The cemetery was used throughout the 1914-1918 War for the burial of sailors and soldiers who died on ships passing Gibraltar, or in the Military Hospital. The 1914-1918 War Graves are scattered in the different divisions of the cemetery. After that war, a Cross of Sacrifice was erected to the West of the cemetery, close to the sea, at the junction of the road into Spain and the Devil's Tower Road. Twenty-three burials belong to H.M.S. "Britannia," sunk by a submarine off Cape Trafalgar on the 9th November, 1918. There are also many graves of merchant sailors who died during the war from natural causes. The majority of the men who lost their lives while at Gibraltar during the 1939-1945 War are buried here. Most of their graves are in two adjacent plots at the northern end of the cemetery, but some are also scattered in other parts. The cemetery is situated on Crown land, and (with the exception of those privately owned) all the War Graves in it are registered in perpetuity in the Commission's name

Family

A son of my current home town, Warrington, William is shown in the 1901 census aged 16 at the address held by CWGC. He lived with his father, William J Hibbert, a grocer aged 45, mother Betsy, then aged 44, sisters Martha (21), Clara (18), and brother Stanley, aged 12. William junior is an Iron Moulder.

The Long, Long Trail records that 1st (Garrison) Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, was formed at Chester, 1 August 1915, then to Gibraltar where it remained throughout the war.

SN

[Myrtle]

SDGW

Born: Warrington

Enlisted: Warrington

Died

Formerly 11217 South Lancs. Regt.