Saturday 31st July 2021. Join Simon Louagie, Talbot House Manager, in the footsteps of the young British Lieutenant Gilbert Talbot.

The son of the Bishop of Winchester, he enjoys a unique education in the best schools. However, when he is on a world tour, the First World War erupts. Immediately Gilbert takes the boat home and enlists in the famed Rifle Brigade. A few months later, he gets his baptism of fire. When the fighting on the Hooge broke out in full force in the summer of 1915, Gilbert's men were also thrown into a counter-attack. Through the eyes of his orderly we follow the battle minute by minute. Gilbert wouldn't survive...

His brother Neville, chaplain and later inspirer of the Talbot House, will personally retrieve the body from No Man's Land. Today Gilbert rests in Sanctuary Wood, a cemetery co-created by his brother Neville. To keep the memory of him and the Golden Generation alive, the Talbot House name was named after him.

Also this year we will commemorate Gilbert, now 106 years after his death. Join us on a real battlefield tour between the fields of the Hooge and learn many anecdotes about Gilbert and some of his closest friends. Like the thousands of Toch pilgrims, we commemorate the Talbotousians at Gilbert's grave.

Lieutenant Gilbert Walter Lyttelton TALBOT - 7th Bn. Rifle Brigade

Died 30 July 1915 Age 23

I. G. 1. SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY

Country of Service: United Kingdom

Additional Info: Son of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchester and the Hon. Mrs. E. S. Talbot, of Farnham Castle, Surrey.

Born at Leeds. Brother of the Rev. Neville Talbot who, with the Rev. Tubby Clayton, named the soldier's club, Talbot House (Toc H) in his memory.

Personal Inscription: FEAR NOT I AM HE THAT LIVETH IN LUMINE TUO VIDEBIMUS LUMEN