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Spr. Gilbert Clarke McAlpine
British Army 106th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.5th Aug 1917)
Gilbert Clarke McAlpine served with 106th Field Coy. Royal Engineers.
He was aged 39 when he died on 5th August 1917.
Born Dumbarton, he was the son of Gilbert and Isabella McAlpine and husband of Emily Annie McAlpine (nee Dunn) of 52 Cobden Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census Gilbert Clarke McAlpine age 32 Architect Surveyor is listed as with his parents Gilbert and Isabella McAlpine and family at 15 New Knowles Road, Fulwell, Sunderland.
He enlisted in Jarrow.
Gilbert is buried in Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.