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Military service
Service number:
55433
Age:
29
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
3rd Tunnelling Coy.
Birth:
November 5, 1886
Death:
April 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Digital gallery of Sapper George William Gibbons
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial Plaque
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: ¿DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE¿, and ¿So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.¿ (John Bunyan). -
Inscription
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE WILLIAM GIBBONS
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Sapper George William Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Sapper George William Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Sapper George William Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Sapper George William Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Sapper George William Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Sapper George William Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Sapper George William Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Sapper George William Gibbons
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 91 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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