Private 2516 George Robert WIMBLES
Private 2516 George Robert Wimbles{gallery}Pte G R Wimbles{/gallery}1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
Killed in action in the Gallipoli Campaign, Dardanelles, 25th April 1915, aged 19
- Commemorated: Helles Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. Panels 59 to 73 or 218 to 219
- Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
- Son of Isaac and Elizabeth Hannah Wimbles
- NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments
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Military, Census and Family History Information
- Born c1897 at Eccleshill, Yorks
- Lived at 4 Benn Street, Bradford [1901]
- Bolton and County Industrial School, Bolton, Lancs [1911]
- Enlisted at Bury. Arrived at Gallipoli on 25th April 1915
- George left his effects to Miss Gertie Fletcher
- The First Battalion was billeted with families in Nuneaton from January 1915 until departing for Gallipoli
- Surnames appears as Whimples on the Riversley memorial
