Sidney Gladstone Gibbs

A Civilian, Sidney died on 12th of May 1943 aged 52. 

Sidney was born at Great Yarmouth on 19 May 1890, a son of James Benjamin and Jane Gibbs. In 1891 his family lived at 7 Nelson Terrace, Great Yarmouth, and by 1901 their home was at 48 Market Place, Great Yarmouth. Sidney’s father became a publican and in 1911 Sidney’s family lived at The Vauxhall Tavern, Great Yarmouth, and Sidney worked as an electrician. By 1921 Sidney’s father was the publican at the Fox and Hounds, Filby. Sidney’s father died in 1934 and in 1939 his mother lived at 169 Lowestoft Road, Gorleston.  

Sidney married Rose Emma Hewitt in 1915, this was registered in the Blofield district. 

Sidney was working as a licensed victualler when joined the Royal Navy, as a stoker, on 25 September 1916, and served with H.M.S. Roberts, the guard ship at Yarmouth, from 6 December 1916 until he was demobilized on 12 February 1919.  

Until 1922 Sidney and Rose lived at 4 Middlegate Street, Great Yarmouth. Nothing is known of Sidney between 1922 and 1934, when his father died, and in 1934 Sidney was a caterer’s manager. Sidney and Rose seem to have become estranged and in 1939 Rose was living at 64 Crown Road, Great Yarmouth, but Sidney was living at 23 Fir Lane, Lowestoft, with Ethel May Sims, and he worked as a grocer. 

Sidney died at the High Street during the Focke-Wulf Raid.