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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
May 26, 1895
New Westminister, British Columbia
Death:
October 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of George F. and Rosamond Watt Gibson, of 2502, 36th Avenue West, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Harold Alexander Frater Gibson
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Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Harold Gibson
Harold Gibson stands to the right in this picture. His generation are all gone now, but I (b.1958) was told that this image captures him with his best friend, whose name is lost to me, who was minimum height for the army, while Harold and his twin Ian were two of the tallest members of the CEF. I was also told that they were killed on the same day. They were known as "Mutt and Jeff" around the regiment. Harold's brother Ian survived the war, minus an arm, and lived into the mid 1960s. Their younger sister Agnes was my grandmother. The family retains the elegant black-bordered letter from the German High Command to my great grandmother, informing her of Harold's death in battle. -
Photo of HAROLD ALEXANDER FRATER GIBSON
In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Alexander Frater Gibson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Alexander Frater Gibson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Alexander Frater Gibson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Alexander Frater Gibson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Alexander Frater Gibson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 91 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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