Gimblett Roll of Honour
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This is a page dedicated to those who gave their lives in service in the two World Wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45. It is a work in progress but if anyone can help to provide information, I will be happy to receive it.
First World War 1914 - 1918
Cecil James Gimblett
Cecil's birth was registered in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand in 1888. However, on his military service record, he states that he was born 22 April 1889. He was the son of James Gimblett and Eliza Goodman, who had emigrated to New Zealand from Cornwall, England in 1874 and the eleventh of thirteen children.
A coach painter by trade, he enlisted into the 2nd Battalion Canterbury Regiment (New Zealand Expeditionary Force) on 30 April 1917 and joined a ship to sail to England. During the voyage, he was docked seven days pay for refusing to lay out his kit for inspection!
Cecil arrived in France in December 1917 and was likely to be involved in the Spring Offensive of 1918. He was still in France on 13 February 1919, when he was evacuated to hospital with flu. This quickly turned to pneumonia and he was transferred to a Casualty Clearing Station, where he died from Bronchitis on 17 February.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/901569/cecil-james-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12747013/cecil-james-gimblett
Percy Gimblett Died 1 Jul 1916
Percy was born in Pontnewydd, Monmouthshire in 1887, the youngest of five children of John Lewis Gimlett and Mary Ann Dyke. His mother died either in childbirth or very soon after Percy was born and his father remarried in 1889 to Mary Ann Tamplin. His father was a miner before becoming an innkeeper at the Rising Sun Inn in Llanattock in Monmouthshire, but Percy became a blacksmith. He was also very sporty and played rugby for Pontnewydd Cromwells, earning good write-ups in the papers.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/748584/percy-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12433971/percy-gimblett
Percy William Gimblett Died 27 Aug 1918
Percy was born in Darlington, Ontario, Canada on 4 August 1888, the eldest son and third of four children of William Robert Gimblett and Rhoda Veale. His younger brother, died at the age of four. He enlisted into the army in January 1918, citing his trade to be a rubber worker.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/250227/percy-william-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56663088/percy-william-gimblett
Raymond John Gimblett Died 20 Feb 1919
Raymond was born in Churchstanton, Somerset on 22 March 1894, the son of John Gimlett and Selina Jane Ryall.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/479497/raymond-john-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15267652/raymond-john-gimblett
Sidney Gimblett Died 10 Apr 1917
On 10 April 1917, Sidney was serving aboard the Hospital ship, HMHS Salta as Assistant Steward, when it hit a German mine at Le Havre, France, whilst picking up wounded men. It sank almost immediately, killing 160 of the 205 people on board.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/4020101/sidney-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56318782/sidney-gimblett
Taliesin Gimblett Died 21 Oct 1914
Taliesin was born in Saltney, Flintshire on Christmas Day 1870, the son of Mathias Gimblet and Mary Davies.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/930969/t-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12047366/taliesin-gimblett
Thomas Fairbairn Gimblett Died 11 Oct 1919
Thomas was born in Wraxhall, Wiltshire on 6 June 1883, the son of Thomas Wheddon Gimblett and Agnes Wheddon Fairbairn.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/4023495/thomas-fairbairn-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67933401/thomas-fairbairn-gimblett
William John Gimblett Died 6 Jul 1916
William was born in St Stephen by Launceston, Cornwall on 3 August 1891, the son of William Henry Gimblett and Mary Jane Langdon.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/116960/w-j-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24609494/william-john-gimblett
John Gimblette Died 15 Sep 1918
John was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland on 29 August 1872, the son of Denis Gimlet and Joanna Fives and the second of seven children.
He married Mary Ann Leahy on 10 January 1899 in Kinsale and they had nine children, the youngest, James, being only three years old when his father died.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/75195928/john-gimblette/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13293249/john-gimblette
Percy Gimblette Died 21 Mar 1920
Percy was born in Pontypridd, Glamorganshire on 17 August 1893, the son of George Gimblet and Mary Ann Williams and the twelfth of fourteen children.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2759301/p-gimblette/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55899692/percy-gimblette
William Joseph Henry Gimblet Died 24 Feb 1921
William was born in Plymouth, Devon on 16 January 1884, the son of Henry Edmund Rowe Gimblet and Margaret Ann Higgins and the eldest of ten children.
He enlisted into the Royal Navy in 1903 and by his death had risen to the rank of Chief Stoker.
In 1905, he married Elizabeth Ethel Hocking. They had five children with the last, Bessie, being born in 1920.
William died of malaria in Bombay, india.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1499136/william-joseph-henry-gimblet/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18861628/william-joseph_henry-gimblet
George James Packer Gimblet Died 4 Oct 1917
George was born in the Plymouth area of Devon on 21 July 1887, the son of George Packer Gimblet and Elizabeth Whitmore.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/156263/george-gimblet/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12579389/george-gimblet
James Harold Gimblett Died 1918
James was born in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England on 21 August 1894.
https://www.rollofhonor.org/ww1/4470997/Army/Private-First-Class,-Infantry-James-Gimblett
Second World War 1939 - 1945
Alexander Ernest Samuel Gimblett Died 22 Mar 1942
Alexander was born in the Strood area of Kent on 21 June 1916, the son of John Gimblett and Sarah Ann Dennis.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2492960/alexander-ernest-samuel-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56694097/alexander-ernest_samuel-gimblett
Arthur Robert Gimblett Died 2 Aug 1940
Arthur was born in Devonport, Devon on 12 October 1910, the son of Robert James Gimblett and Violet Priscilla Williams.
At the beginning of 1940, he married Ann Josephine Mahony.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2492961/arthur-robert-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56694098/arthur-robert-gimblett
Thomas Gimblett Died 19 Sep 1943
Thomas was born in the Newport area of Monmouthshire in 1915, the son of Thomas Llewellyn Gimblett and Alice Cunningham.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2167698/thomas-gimblett/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23714802/thomas-gimblett
Donald Poole Gimblette Died 6 Jul 1945
Donald was born in the Cardiff area of Glamorganshire in 1918, the son of Clifford Donald Gimblette and Ina Elsie Jones.
He married Rose-Marie Newbury in Colliers Wood, Surrey in 1944.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2435055/donald-poole-gimblette/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60093667/donald-poole-gimblette
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