{"id":129,"date":"2016-11-18T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/?p=129"},"modified":"2016-11-18T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T12:07:56","slug":"andrews-horace-gibson-1890-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/2016\/11\/18\/andrews-horace-gibson-1890-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrews, Horace Gibson (1890-1917)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed in 1891 Census as aged 1 living at 103 Park Street, Woburn, Beds. The youngest of 8 children, father Gibson Andrews (ironmonger) and mother Emma.<\/p>\n<p>1901 Census aged 11 living at the same address and gained a younger brother.<\/p>\n<p>1911 Census aged 21 boarding at 18 James Street Rochester, recorded as being an Assistant Master &#8211; very possibly at St Peter&#8217;s School as his name is recorded on their Roll of Honour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/files\/2016\/11\/Horace-Gibson-grave-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"horace-gibson-grave\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/files\/2016\/11\/Horace-Gibson-grave-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/files\/2016\/11\/Horace-Gibson-grave.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Military Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain 8<sup>th<\/sup> Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment<\/p>\n<p>Killed in action on 7<sup>th<\/sup> June 1917 on the first day of the Battle of Messines Ridge. The battle commenced with blowing up of over 20 mines under the German lines, the craters of which are still visible today.<\/p>\n<p>Buried in Bedford House Cemetery Ypres <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymanremembered.org\/profiles\/soldier\/483768\/\">http:\/\/www.everymanremembered.org\/profiles\/soldier\/483768\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He left effects of \u00a3424 14s. 6d. to two of his brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Another two of his brothers were also killed on the Somme in 1916<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extract from the Regimental war diary (pages 436-437)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We shared in the great victory for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Army. Zero hours 3.10am. The 9<sup>th<\/sup> Y&amp;L took their objective in fine style, and at 6.50am we left their new line to attack the final objective (ZILLEBEKE). This we took with a strongpoint about 50yds in advance of the right flank, also the KNOLL, an eminence in NO MANS LAND in front of our own centre. Our Officer casualties were CAPT ANDREWS (killed), 2n\/lt HART(believed killed) 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\/lt LUCAS (believed killed) and 2\/lts ASTON,IMISON&lt;VANSENDEN, LT POPPLEWELL, CAPT BELL and 2\/lt BILLINGTON wounded. Estimated O.R. casualties 300. No counter-attacks after the position had once been consolidated. We held all our own gains, tho there was aterrific bombardment between 9 &amp; 110.30pm. Our guns broke up an attempted counter-attack. Later we were relieved from the line by the 9<sup>th<\/sup> York &amp; Lancaster Regiment, and the remnants of our unit took up quarters in MT.SORRELL depots we spent in rest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancestry.com sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1891 Census Class: RG12; Piece: 1262; Folio: 128; Page: 17; GSU roll: 6096372<\/p>\n<p>1901 Census Class: RG13; Piece: 1506; Folio: 93; Page: 14<\/p>\n<p>1911 Census Class: RG14; Piece: 3893; Schedule Number: 163<\/p>\n<p>England &amp; Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995<\/p>\n<p>Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sean Ryan, 2016<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/2016\/11\/18\/andrews-horace-gibson-1890-1917\/&amp;t=Andrews, Horace Gibson (1890-1917)' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Andrews, Horace Gibson (1890-1917)%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/2016\/11\/18\/andrews-horace-gibson-1890-1917\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/2016\/11\/18\/andrews-horace-gibson-1890-1917\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/2016\/11\/18\/andrews-horace-gibson-1890-1917\/&amp;title=Andrews, Horace Gibson (1890-1917)' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/2016\/11\/18\/andrews-horace-gibson-1890-1917\/&amp;title=Andrews, Horace Gibson (1890-1917)' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed in 1891 Census as aged 1 living at 103 Park Street, Woburn, Beds. The youngest of 8 children, father Gibson Andrews (ironmonger) and mother &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/2016\/11\/18\/andrews-horace-gibson-1890-1917\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165029],"tags":[165224,165230,165225,165226,165223,165227,165023,165229,165153,165228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}