David Gilbert
David Gilbert (1888-1915)
1915 Obituary [1]
DAVID GILBERT was born at Eastbourne, Sussex, on 11th February 1888.
He was educated locally and served an apprenticeship of four years with Messrs. R. H. Munro, machine-tool makers, of South Tottenham.
On its completion in 1909 he studied at the Northampton Institute, London, where he took the three-years' course in Engineering. During this course he was sent to Messrs. Reavell and Co.'s Works at Ipswich, for practical training, and subsequently was engaged on fitting and erecting fir-compressors and steam-engines for the firm.
In November 1914 he enlisted in the Divisional Engineers of the Royal Naval Division, and went out to the Dardanelles in the early part of this year as corporal with the 1st Field Company.
After being slightly wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel, he caught a chill in the very damp trench, which produced the internal trouble from which he died. He was treated at first in a rest camp, and then passed on to the hospital at Cairo, where his death took place on 21st June 1915, at the age of twenty-seven.
He was elected a Graduate of this Institution in 1913.