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Pilot Officer JOSEPH NORMAN GILBY

Service Number: 115137
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

103 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1942

Buried or commemorated at

BRIGG CEMETERY

Plot B. Uncons. Grave 187.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Stanley Provo Gilby and Emily Gilby; husband of Irene Ivy Gilby, of Shortlands, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

BRIGG CEMETERY
Lincolnshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 51
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