James Albert (Bert) John GIBSON, was born on December 9, 1898, at Calgary, Alberta.

On December 28, 1916, he enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps where he served on the battle fields in France with No. 3 Field Ambulance as a stretcher bearer.  Stretcher-bearers had the task of clearing the wounded from the battlefield.  Stretcher-bearers usually had to brave bullets and shell fire to reach the wounded.

On September 2, 1918, Bert sustained a gunshot wound to the thigh, believed to be during the “First Battle of Arras” and part of “The First Battles of the Somme’.

Bert GIBSON died on May 10, 1973 (73) and is buried at Aberdeen Cemetery, Abbotsford, BC.