July 1st 2006. 90th Anniverary of Battle of Somme. In memory of Arthur Venables who dressed Bertie’s wound on the Gommecourt battlefield and was later killed that day.
The WW1 Letters and Drawings of Private Bertie Hibbett, 1/5th South Staffordshire Regiment, to his family in Walsall, will be posted again, one hundred years on, from August 1914 to November 1918, by his daughter Elizabeth Hibbett Webb. The first posting will be the Recruitment Postcard sent by Queen Mary's Grammar School Headmaster to the Hibbett family on holiday in Abergele, Wales.