Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. J. Gibb, Auckland Infantry Battalion, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who was killed in action on the First Day of the Gallipoli Landings, 25 April 1915

1914-15 Star (12/1214 Pte. W. J. Gibb. N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals (12/1214 Pte. W. J. Gibb. N.Z.E.F.) good very fine (3) £700-£900

William James Gibb was born on 23 October 1884 and attested for the 2nd Auckland Infantry Battalion on 20 October 1914. He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the Great War, embarking on 15 December 1914, and arriving in Egypt on 29 January 1915. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on the first day of the Gallipoli Landings, 25 April 1915- a hand written note with the lot states that he was killed in the first wave, either shot dead in the boat or in the water. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

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