Lives of the First World War

WW1 Royal Irish Regiment cap badge

WW1 Royal Irish Regiment cap badge

Joseph A Gibbs's ICRC prisoner of war index card

SS Herschel, the ship which transported the Royal Irish Regiment across the channel to France. They disembarked in Boulogne on 14th August 1914.

The area around the hospital and cemetery, to the east of Mons, where the Royal Irish Regiment first came in contact with the enemy

La Bascule crossroads, Mons, Belgium, where a small detachment of the Royal Irish Regiment held out for hours against a superior enemy force.

Restaurant Leon on Chausee de Binche on the site of the former Chateau Gendebien which was used as a Red Cross hospital at the time of the Battle of Mons

The fields between Caudry and Audencourt where the fighting between the Royal Irish Regiment and the advancing Germans took place on 26th August 1914.

The road cutting south west of Audencourt where Lieutenant Colonel Cox, Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment was severely wounded at around 10 am on the morning of 26th August 1914.

The Memorial to the Royal Irish Regiment at Mons overlooks the ground on which the 2nd Battalion fought on the 23rd August 1914. It was unveiled by Lord Ypres on 11th November 1923.

The plaque at the base of the Mons memorial to the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment. The memorial was unveiled on 11th November 1923 at La Bascule crossroads.

Map of the Battle of Mons from The Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment, Vol. II (drawn by Major St.Leger)

Map of the actions at Caudry/Audencourt from The Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment, Vol. II (drawn by Major St.Leger)

Fort George, Guernsey, Channel Islands where Private Joseph A Gibbs was stationed with the Royal Irish Regiment at the time of the 1911 census

Notting Hill Gate. Joseph Albert Gibbs was born in Notting Hill in 1887.

Sennelager POW camp where Private Joseph Albert Gibbs was a prisoner in 1914.

Clarendon Road, Reading, where Joseph Albert Gibbs was living at the time of his discharge from the army on 8th April 1919

Doynton Street, Highgate, London where Joseph Albert Gibbs was living in February 1921

St Johns Road, Poole, where Joseph Albert Gibbs was living in September 1938

Fort George, Guernsey, Channel Islands, where Private Joseph Gibbs was stationed with the Royal Irish Regiment at the time of the 1911 census

The La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Memorial commemorates 3,740 officers and men of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) who fell at the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, the Marne and the Aisne between the end of August and early October 1914 and have no known graves...The memorial was designed by George H. Goldsmith, a decorated veteran of the Western Front, and unveiled by Sir William Pulteney, who had commanded the III Corps of the BEF in 1914, on 4 November 1928. (From CWGC Cemetery Details)