Born in October, 1894, Sidney Allen James Gibson was the son of Janet Gibson and John Gibson, a bookkeeper. In 1911 the family was living at 38 Mayfair Avenue, Ilford. He attended Coopers Company School in Bow in 1908.
Sidney served in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps as a Rifleman and died of wounds he sustained on 15th September 1916, at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.
Sidney was one of 131 men of his battalion (18th Battalion, D Company) to die that day; 92 being killed in action and the remaining 39 dying of their wounds.
Sidney Allen James’ name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
Some information / extracts have been reproduced with kind permission of Karen Pack from her book ‘Coopers’ Boys & Coborn Girls: Their Part in the Great War’ © Karen Pack, 2015
Sources:
Ancestry.com
ICHS school records and magazines
Commonwealth War Graves Commission