Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Burton Gibson[1] | ||
Date of birth | 24 June 1889 | ||
Place of birth | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 5 September 1915[2] | (aged 26)||
Place of death | HMHS Salta, off Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey | ||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Half back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
St Andrews University | |||
1912–1913 | Raith Rovers | 17 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Burton Gibson (24 June 1889 – 5 September 1915) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for Raith Rovers as a half back.[4]
Gibson was educated at the University of St Andrews, where he played for the football team and graduated with an M.A.[4][5] Prior to the First World War, he emigrated to New Zealand and became a teacher at Napier Boys' High School.[4] On 18 January 1915, six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Gibson enlisted as a private in the Auckland Infantry Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.[3][4][6] On 4 September 1915, whilst fighting in the Gallipoli campaign, Gibson was wounded in the ribs and chest by shrapnel and was evacuated to the hospital ship HMHS Salta.[1] He died of wounds the following day and was buried at sea on 6 September.[3][4] He is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial and was posthumously awarded the 1914–15 Star,[2] the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.[3]