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23/01/2017 Private George Gribbon has no known grave and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial.
23/01/2017 Private George Gribbon was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action in France & Flanders on 31st January 1917.
23/01/2017 George enlisted in Hamilton, Scotland.
23/01/2017 Other newspaper reports suggest George Gribbon also lived in the Brecart, just east of Toome.
23/01/2017 The 1911 census lists a 16 year old George Gribbon, age 16, working as a servant for the Wilson family at house 1 in Ballydugennan, Cargin, County Antrim. He was born in Scotland. Ballydugennan lies south east of Toome.
23/01/2017 George Gribbon was born in Dalzell, Motherwell, Lanark about 1895.
23/01/2017 Private George Gribben, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Toomebridge, killed in action.
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23/01/2017 From the Belfast Newsletter dated 24th April 1917:
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