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Personal data

• Name GRIBBLE
• Initials EJ
• First name ERNEST JOHN
• Place of birth Ballarat
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Family Third son of William James and Alice Eliza Gribble (nee Stoney), of 1,304, Mair St., Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Seven brothers: Frederick William, Charles Hedley, twin-brother Arthur James, Wilfred Hambly, Robert Henry, Cecil Frank and Dudley Vernon. Ernie, Charlie, Arthur also served; they survived.
• Education Ballarat College
• Profession Tailor

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 22 March 1915, Ballarat
• Service number 16135
• Rank Gunner
• Regiment and unit 13th Brigade Australian Field Artillery 49th Battery
• Army - Corps - Division 5th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation date 30 August 1915, for Gallipoli, with 6th Field Amb.; invalided home; to England May 1916; to France March 1917

Death

• Wounded 30 September, Glencorse Wood
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in skull, in n°2 Can CCS
• Date of death 1 October 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - G - 5A

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