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The Roll lists his address as 3 Wellington Street. It correctly records his surname as "Gilby", but some of his official records are under the spelling "Gilbey".
(CWGC records that Private George Gilbey, regimental number 6081, died aged 30 on 9/9/1914 while serving in 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment, and is commemorated on Stone 9.A of La Ferte Sous Jouarre Memorial in France. They record him as the son of John and Alice Gilbey of Loft Cottage, Burger's Corner, Soham, Cambridgeshire. On the 1911 census George Gilbey, aged 27, was living with his parents John and Alice at Qua Fen Common in Soham, where he was stated to have been born. His birth was registered in 1884 in the Newmarket District as 'George Gilby', which was therefore his legal surname. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as George Gilby, and that he enlisted in Ely. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record him as George Gilbey, indicating he was born in Soham, had enlisted on 26/5/1902, and that he died at Bezu le Guery; his parents were his legatees. The Medal Rolls record him as George Gilby, stating he disembarked 15/8/1914 and died of wounds 9/9/1914).