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Joseph Lobb GIBSON

Regimental number15182
Place of birthCollingwood, Victoria
SchoolVictoria Park State School, Victoria
ReligionMethodist
OccupationButcher
AddressWoodlands, P O Kilsyth, Kilsyth, Victoria
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation27
Next of kinWife, Mrs Alice Fern Gibson, Woodlands, P O Kilsyth, Kilsyth, Victoria
Enlistment date17 February 1916
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll28 April 1916
Rank on enlistmentSapper
Unit nameDivisional Signal Company 3, Reinforcement 3
AWM Embarkation Roll number22/13/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on 25 September 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll1st Divisional Signal Company
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularDied of illness.
FateDied of disease 26 February 1919
Place of death or woundingCharleroi, Belgium
Age at death30
Age at death from cemetery records30
Place of burialCharleroi communal Cemetery (Row J, Grave No. 9), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
25
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Robert and Annie GIBSON; husband of Alice GIBSON, "Woodlands", Kilsyth, Victoria
Family/military connectionsBrother: HArold Gibson

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