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| File Reference |
DP1712
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| Name |
John Gibbons |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Carheenbrack, Carrowbeg, Westport
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| County |
Mayo
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1897
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| Notes |
Date of birth not recorded on file but date of baptism given as 25 March 1897
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| Date of death |
1923-09-02
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| Place |
Mayo County Hospital, Castlebar, County Mayo
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| Associated files in MSPA |
52APB631; 2RB516; Y391;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Volunteers |
| Rank |
Volunteer
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| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Unknown
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| Unit |
2 Battalion
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| Company |
F Company (Tiernaur Company)
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| Brigade |
West Mayo Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Laurence McGovern; J. Connolly; Eamon Moane; Michael Kilroy;
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| Pension Claim |
No |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
Yes |
| Type of Award |
OTHOther
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| Notes |
Partial dependents' gratuity
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyY391 John Gibbons.pdf
Scanned/digital copyDP1712 John Gibbons.pdf
Scanned/digital copy52APB631 John Gibbons.pdf
Scanned/digital copy2RB516 John Gibbons.pdf |
| File dates |
29 December 1932 - 12 October 1946
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Margaret Gibbons' receipt of a partial dependents’' gratuity of £85 (eighty five pounds sterling) in 1939 under the Army Pensions Acts in respect of her son IRA member John Gibbons.
John Gibbons' death on 2 September 1923 from Phthisis at Mayo County Hospital, Castlebar, County Mayo was deemed to have been due to his service with the IRA. According to references on file John Gibbons' had injured his leg while carrying a wounded IRA colleague, Anthony Keane, to safety during a round up by the National Army on 24 November 1922. It is stated that he again injured this leg while attempting to break railway lines between Mallaranny and Newport in County Mayo on 6 January 1923. Due to these injuries it is stated that Gibbons' developed tuberculosis in that leg. Although the leg was amputated he subsequently died. According to material on file Gibbons served with the Irish Volunteers and IRA from 1917 onwards during both the War of Independence and Civil War.
File includes: original handwritten material signed and submitted by Margaret Gibbons in support of her application; medical certificates in respect of John Gibbons' illness and death; signed handwritten statements regarding John Gibbons from Michael Mangan, Anthony Keane, Pat Lavelle, John McNulty, Patrick Molloy, Laurence McGovern and Michael Kilroy; signed handwritten reports from investigating officers, Customs and Excise, Mulranny and Castlebar regarding the circumstances and means of the Gibbons family and the degree of dependency of Margaret Gibbons on her son at the time of his death.
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