Brian Normansby Fitzgibbon

Memorial: Yate - St Mary's Church Lych Gate

Regiment: Royal Irish Regiment

Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Rank and number: 2nd Lieutenant

Parents: John Arthur and Katherine Maude Fitzgibbon

Date of birth: 1894

Place of birth: Yate, Bristol

Date of death: 21/08/1916

Buried/Commemorated at: Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery (Ref. I. L. 15.), France

Age: 22

Further information:

Brian was the son of John and Kathrine Fitzgibbon and born in Yate.

He served with the 6th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, when he was Killed in Action in France. Brian is commemorated at the Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery in France.

Brian Normansby Fitzgibbon is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, which is now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Yate.

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

Yate and District Heritage Centre, Forces War Records and CWGC