Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private G. A. Gibson, 43rd Battalion Canadian Infantry, seriously wounded 11 June 1916

British War and Victory Medals (153676 Pte., 43-Can. Inf.) mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £60-80

George Albert Gibson was born in Dunbarton, Scotland on 19 July 1892 (research notes state that he was actually born in Stuttgard, Germany while his parents were in the Salvation Army there). Employed as a Carpenter, living at 1938 Halifax Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 19 August 1915. He was a member of the 79th C.H. of C. and had previously served 3 years in the 26th Artillery at Regina. He was posted to the 43rd Battalion and arrived in England in December 1915 and in France in February 1916. He was seriously wounded in action on 11 June 1916 - suffering a gunshot/shrapnel wound to the chest. After treatment at No. 8 Static Hospital at Wimereux, Gibson was invalided to the First Eastern Hospital at Cambridge, England and then in November 1916 he was returned to Canada. As a Company Sergeant-Major he was discharged at Regina on 2 August 1919. With copied service papers.