SIBLEY, George John Falconer
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 15 September 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Port Douglas, Qld., 1 January 1919 |
| Home Town: | Mount Carbine, Tablelands, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Parramatta State School, Cairns High School |
| Occupation: | Fitter & Turner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, 18 May 1941, aged 22 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Gordonvale George Sibley Memorial Plaque, Tower Hill Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Merchant Navy | |
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| Date unknown: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Served on S.S. Piako (Plymouth)
Advice has been received that Mr. George John Falconer Sibley, who was well known in Port Douglas, Gordonvale and Cairns, has been reported killed in action. Mr. Sibley, who was born in Port Douglas 22 years ago, spent most of his school life in Cairns. He passed his scholarship examination whilst attending the Parramatta State School and, following this, attended the Cairns High School for one year. He left this school upon being accepted as an apprentice (turner and fitter trade) at the Mulgrave Central Mill at Gordonvale. After serving a successful apprenticeship he left the employ of the Mulgrave mill, and went to Sydney with the intention of procuring a position as engineer on an overseas vessel.
He was successful in obtaining such employment, and was so employed on various overseas vessels during the period from early in 1939 to the time of his reported death. Mr. Sibley's travels were not free from adventures. In May, 1939, he was rescued from a vessel which struck an apparently uncharted reef and sunk. Again, towards the latter end of 1940, the ship on which he was then employed, was bombed from the air, both at sea and whilst in port. Subsequently in November, 1940, this same vessel was torpedoed and sunk. Sibley was rescued, and immediately joined another vessel, in which he finally completed a round-the-world voyage, arriving back in Australia about three months ago. His stay in Australia was a short one of approximately one month, and it was on the subsequent voyage overseas that he was reported killed in enemy action.
Cairns Post (Qld.), 4 June 1941.