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Leongatha & District
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORY OF THE FORMER WOORAYL SHIRE
Dumbalk • Inverloch • Koonwarra • Leongatha • Meeniyan • Ruby
Tarwin Lower • Venus Bay • Walkerville
GRIBBLE, Clement
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Private 938
30th battalion
Murrumdindi NSW
The reverend A H Gribble of the Rectory Coonamble NSW
Liverpool 8/1/1915
Age 21 years 1 month, 5'5", 10 stone, blue eyes and dark brown hair,
Church of England
Student of Holy Orders
He was killed in action on 22/3/1917 at Beaumetz France
Villers Bretonneux Memorial
Unknown
8/1/15 enlisted in Liverpool NSW
21/5/15 He embarked Newcastle on HMAT Kabinga
He was first a Trooper in the 7th Light horse
2/10/15 He went to the Gallipoli Peninsula
28/10/15 He was sick in hospital with a hernia and was transferred to Mudros
2/11/15 He disembarked in Malta and was admitted to St Georges Hospital
13/11 15 He left for England
28/11/15 He was admitted to the 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford.
30/9/16 He went to France
1/10/16 He was in Etaples
14/10/16 He joined the 30th Battalion
27/3/17 He was killed in action
His father The Reverend A H Gribble Rectory Coonamble NSW
His effects were: � letters, 2 wallets, a diary, a testament, and photos
His mother was Selina Alice and his father Arthur Hazelhurst Gribble
He was the brother of Norman Gribble
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