William Albion GIBBS

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GIBBS, William Albion

Service Numbers:	1295, 403
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 July 1879
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	King's College, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Miner, Politician
Died:	Heart failure, Belmore, New South Wales, Australia., 17 August 1944, aged 65 years
Cemetery:	Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Corporal, 1295, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles

World War 1 Service

18 Oct 1914:	Embarked 403, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney
18 Oct 1914:	Involvement 403, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''

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Biography contributed by Mary Foster

William Albion Gibbs son of Frederick Colin Gibbs and Mary Ann Gibbs (nee Merton).

Married Ellen Blanche Emery 27/06/1906, Cobar, N.S.W.

Educated at King's College, Fitzroy.

He served in the Military in the Boer War 1899-1902 and WW1 1914 - 1616.

He was a miner at Cobar in N.S.W. and an organiser of Amalgamated Miners' Associated, as well as Assistant Secretary of the N.S.W. Labor Party from 1917-1926. On 1st April 1925, Gibbs was appointed to the Australian Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of N.S.W. Labor Senator Jack Power, who had been appointed less than 6 months previously to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Allan McDougall. William Albion Gibbs did not contest the 1925 election & subsequently retired from politics.

He died 17th August 1944 at his home in Belmore, Sydney.

He was survived by his 2 children Frederick & Marjorie.

Copied in part from Wikipedia, senate.gov.au and National Library of Australia.

by Mary Jane Bastalich (nee Foster) - his 1st cousin 3 x removed.

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