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Second Lieutenant OLIVER VERNON GIBBON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 April 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2

I. D. 20.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank and Rosa Kathleen Gibbon, of 11, Victoria Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies.
  • Personal Inscription KING AND COUNTRY CALLED HIM AND WITH GOD'S BLESSING HE GAVE HIS LIFE NOBLY
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Buried or commemorated at

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 599
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