5755 Private B Gibson, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. The Battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing from Gibraltar in the Ghoorkha on 25 Oct 1899, and arrived at the Cape about 15 Nov 1900. Along with the 1st and 2nd Coldstreams and the 1st Scots Guards they composed the 1st or Guards Brigade, under Major General Sir H E Colvile. They were part of the Kimberley relief force and fought at the battles of Belmont (23 Nov 1899), at Modder River (28 Nov 1899) and Magersfontein (11 Dec 1899), leading to the relief of Kimberley. They were part of the main army advance to Bloemfontein and Pretoria. Private Gibson died of enteric fever (typhoid) at Bloemfontein on 12 Jun 1900.
5755 Private B Gibson, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. The Battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing from Gibraltar in the Ghoorkha on 25 Oct 1899, and arrived at the Cape about 15 Nov 1900. Along with the 1st and 2nd Coldstreams and the 1st Scots Guards they composed the 1st or Guards Brigade, under Major General Sir H E Colvile. They were part of the Kimberley relief force and fought at the battles of Belmont (23 Nov 1899), at Modder River (28 Nov 1899) and Magersfontein (11 Dec 1899), leading to the relief of Kimberley. They were part of the main army advance to Bloemfontein and Pretoria. Private Gibson died of enteric fever (typhoid) at Bloemfontein on 12 Jun 1900.
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