Joseph Walter Gilbert

1884 - 1914  (30 years)

• Name	Joseph Walter Gilbert
  Birth	1884	Kettering, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	5 Apr 1891	Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [2]
  	Address: 35 Derwent Street
  Residence	31 Mar 1901	Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [3]
  	Address: 7 Wilson Street
  Occupation	31 Mar 1901  [3]
  	Packer - shoes
  Residence	2 Apr 1911	Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India   [4]
  	Address: 59 (Siege) Company Royal Garrison Artillery
  Occupation	2 Apr 1911  [4]
  	(Rank: Gunner) Labourer
  Death	24 Dec 1914	Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England   [5, 6]
  	Name: JOSEPH WALTER GILBERT Service number: 29264 Rank: GUNNER Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery Birth place: ST. MARK'S, KETTERING Residence: NEWARKS, LEICESTER Enlistment place: NOTTINGHAM Death date: 24 Dec 1914 How died: Died Death location: Home Theatre of war: Home Country: Great Britain
  Burial	Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England   [7]
  	GILBERT, JOSEPH WALTER Rank: Gunner Service Number: 29264 Date of Death: 24 December 1914 Age: 30 Cause: Pneumonia Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery 59th Coy. Grave Reference: E. "C." 1867. Cemetery: Kingston-upon-Thames Cemetery Additional Information: Son of Henry and Harriett T. Gilbert, of 43, Harewood St., Leicester.
  Notes	1911 census - age 25
  Person ID	I11212	Gilbert
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Henry Gilbert,   b. 1846, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, England d. 1910, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Harriet Susanna Mewis,   b. 1849, Leicester, Leicestershire, England d. 1939, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	26 Dec 1869	Leicester, Leicestershire, England
  Family ID	F8026	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1884 - Kettering, Northamptonshire, England Residence - Address: 35 Derwent Street - 5 Apr 1891 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England Residence - Address: 7 Wilson Street - 31 Mar 1901 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England Residence - Address: 59 (Siege) Company Royal Garrison Artillery - 2 Apr 1911 - Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India Death - 24 Dec 1914 - Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England Burial - - Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Location       : City/Town       : District/Borough       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents

  GILBERT, Joseph W: World War 1 Medal Index Card World War 1 medal index card for Joseph W GILBERT. He was a Gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was awarded the British War Medal. UK, British Army World War I Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 (ancestry.co.uk)

  
  

• Sources

  [S129] General Register Office (England and Wales), GRO Online Index (Births) - England and Wales, Gilbert, Joseph Walter; Mother's Maiden Surname: Mewis; GRO Reference: 1884 S Quarter in KETTERING Volume 03B Page 163 (accessed 16 Sep 2017). [S6] 1891 Census (FindMyPast) England, Wales and Scotland, (The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey), Gilbert, Joseph; Birth year: 1885; Birth county: Northamptonshire; Reg dist: Leicester; Parish: Leicester; City: Leicester; County: Leicestershire; Ref: RG12; Piece: 2526; Folio: 130; Page: 38 (accessed 29 May 2018). [S7] 1901 Census (FindMyPast) England, Wales and Scotland, (The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey), Gilbert, Joseph; Birth year: 1885; Birth town: Kettering; Birth county: Northamptonshire; Reg dist: Leicester; Parish: Leicester; County: Leicestershire; Ref: RG13; Piece: 2996; Folio: 115; Page: 18 (accessed 5 Apr 2018). [S8] 1911 Census (FindMyPast) England and Wales, (The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey), Gilbert, Joseph Walter; Birth year: 1886; Birth place: Kettering; County: Overseas Military; Ref: RG14PN34982 RD641 SD7 ED16 SN9999 (accessed 16 Apr 2018). [S180] General Register Office (England and Wales), GRO Online Index (Deaths) - England and Wales, Gilbert, Joseph Walter; Age: 29; GRO Reference: 1914 D Quarter in KINGSTON Volume 02A Page 526 (accessed 25 Aug 2018). [S85] Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 (FindMyPast), Gilbert, Joseph Walter; 1914; Service number: 29264; Rank: Gunner; Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery (accessed 7 Jul 2017). [S38] Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Gilbert, Joseph Walter; Country: United Kingdom; Cemetery or memorial: Kingston-upon-Thames Cemetery; Service number: 29264; Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery; First World War (accessed 13 Apr 2021).