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Surname: CLIBBORN
Forename(s): John Barclay
Place of Birth: Bentham, Yorkshire
Service No: ---
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment / Corps / Service: Canadian Mounted Rifles, 3rd Regiment
Battalion / Unit: ---
Division: ---
Age: 28
Date of Death: 1915-11-26
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: A. 6.
CWGC Cemetery: MAPLE LEAF CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
John Barclay Clibborn (born 24 January 1887) was the son of Alfred Ernest and Sarah Ann Amelia Clibborn, née Bowling. Alfred was born in Co. Westmeath, Ireland and Sarah at Ashton, Lancashire.
1891 Bentham, Yorkshire Census: Bentham House - John B. Clibborn, aged 4 years, born Bentham, son of Alfred E. Clibborn and Sarah A.A. Clibborn.
1901 Corkhill (Clara, King's Co.), Ireland Census: John Clibborn, aged 14 years, born Yorkshire, son of Alfred Ernest and Amelia Clibborn.
John was married to Catherine Louisa Servas.
The 3rd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles were dismounted cavalry and fought as infantry with the 1st Brigade Canadian Mounted Rifles. On the 1 January 1916, the six regiments of Canadian Mounted Rifles were reorganized into four battalions to form the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade. The 3rd Regiment were absorbed by the 1st and 2nd Battalions Canadian Mounted Rifles.
A short biography of John is included in: ‘Bentham’s Part in the Great War 1914-18’ by Allan and Marilyn Hartley (2019).
Canadian service records: http://www.baclac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
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Lieutenant John Barclay CLIBBORN
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Canadian Mounted Rifles, 3rd Regiment
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Lieutenant John Barclay Clibborn
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Memorial Chamber of Canada’s Parliament Buildings, Ottawa
In the Memorial Chamber are the eight ‘Books of Remembrance’ that contain the names of more than 120,000 Canadians who gave their lives in the service of Canada
Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe)
Page from the First World War ‘Book of Remembrance’: Lieutenant John Barclay Clibborn
Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe)
The High & Low Bentham men who gave their lives
Top row (l-r): Rfn Ernest Knight Newhouse, Pte John Thornber, Reverend Theodore Bayley Hardy, Pte Richard Wilson, Pte Maurice Richard Bolton, Lieut John Barclay Clibborn, Pte William Throup, Pte Richard Wilcock Carr, A/Cpl William Robinson, Pte James Auton, Pte William Savage. Third row (l-r): L/Cpl David Percival Dixon, Pte John Emmott, Pte Francis Richard Townson, Pte John Adamthwaite, Pte Robert Carter, L/Cpl John Hutchinson, Pte Alfred Edward Gunn, Pte Ezra Stephenson, Pte Edwin Rawlinson Smith, Pte Richard Wearing, Lieut Basil William Ramsbotton. Third row (l-r): Spr Robert Clark, Act L/Cpl Thomas Wilcock, Cpl William Carr, Pte Lawrence Lancelot Dowbiggin, Pte Edward Magoolagan, Pte Isaac Rucastle, Pte Henry Taylor, Cpl Edward Ramskill, L/Cpl Edward Walton Briscoe, Pte Joseph Jackson, Gnr Ernest Wilcock. Fourth row (l-r): Capt Donald Morrison, Sgt Arthur Dean Blackburn, Pte James William Bell, Pte Leonard Nelson, L/Cpl John Edward Leeming, L/Cpl Albert Lister, Pte Percy Preston Whitfield, Cpl Tom Harry Smith, Cpl Thomas Walker Sanderson, Sgt William Patrick Tobin, Pte (Signaller) W. Wilkinson.
Courtesy of the artist, David Hartnup
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10 December 1915
FORMER BENTHAM LIEUTENANT KILLED
Much sorrow is felt at the death of Lieut. John Bartley Glibborn, of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, who died of wounds in France. He was the only son of Mr. A. E. Glibborn, who was manager of the Old Bentham Mills Spinning Co. and was also manager at Bentham Mills for the Hemp Yarn Cordage Combine before its liquidation, and a well-known figure at Bentham. The late Lieut. Glibborn was born at Bentham House in 1887, and his mother was Miss Baldwin, a member of a well-known Scotforth family. He emigrated to Canada some years ago and married a French Canadian lady, who belonged to an old Republican French family, and leaves two little girls. The deceased officer obtained his early education at Miss Wilson’s private School, Bentham, after which he went to Ackworth Friends’ School, near Wakefield. He was very well known at Bentham as were his parents. Everyone liked ‘Jack Glibborn,’ who was of an amiable disposition and a general favourite.
04 July 1919
PEACE SUPPLEMENT TO THE 'CRAVEN HERALD' – CRAVEN'S FALLEN OFFICERS
LIEUTENANT J. B. GLIBBORN
Canadian Mounted Rifles, son of Mr. A. E. Glibborn, formerly manager of the Old Bentham Mills Spinning Company, died of wounds in France.
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