15227 Private Stephen Wallace Gamblin of the 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment, was killed in action on the 25th January 1918. He had previously served with the Durham Light Infantry (number 33602).
Stephen Gamblin was born in South Shields, County Durham and was living in the town when he enlisted. He was a married man and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was married to M E Gamblin of 187 Victoria Road, South Shields. His entry on the Irish Casualty Roll (see above) gives no further information and his medal index card at the National Archives shows entitlement to the British War and Victory medals which in turn means that he must have arrived overseas on or after the 1st January 1916. No service record survives.
M E Gamblin is Mary Ellen Elstob whom Stephen had married in South Shields in 1906. Their marriage is recorded in the June quarter of that year. Stephen would have been about 23 years old then, his bride a similar age. He appears on the 1901 census as a 17-year-old carpenter living with his parents and older brother Owen (aged 25) in South Shields.
By the time Stephen went to war, he and his wife had at least one child - Rebecca E Gamblin was born in 1914 - and may have had other children who my basic research on this man has failed to uncover.
Stephen Gamblin is buried in Hargicourt British Cemetery in France.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, Ireland - Casualties of World War One)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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