Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private J. Gibson, Northumberland Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (46747 Pte., North’d. Fus.); together with original card box of issue; and named Great War tribute medal, in silver and enamels, in the form of a cross inscribed ‘For services in the war 1914-1918, Parish of Great & Little Usworth’, nearly extremely fine (3) £60-80

Private Joseph Gibson was born in Gosforth, Northumberland and enlisted at Gateshead0on-Tyne. He died of wounds France and Flanders 18 June 1917, whilst serving with the 12th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.