Source: Remembering the Great War by the WR Record
Family Search: Private Thomas Gibson was born on 29 May 1897, in Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as labourer in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 8 August 1918, in Marcelcave, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, at the age of 21, and was buried in Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, Picardie, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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