Mother Lost Father and Brother On Her Birthday, Six Years Apart ; for Many Years, Peter Hill has Been Researching His Family History and the Lives of the Hills and Gabbs, Who Lived and Worked in the Old West End. Here Peter, of Derby, Shares His Latest Findings About His Maternal Grandfather, George Percival Gabb

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MY maternal grandfather, George Percival Gabb, was born at 6 Devonshire Street, Derby, in March 1882.

The street was in the old Cockpit Hill area of the town, which was demolished some time ago to make way for the Eagle Centre.

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Mother Lost Father and Brother On Her Birthday, Six Years Apart ; for Many Years, Peter Hill has Been Researching His Family History and the Lives of the Hills and Gabbs, Who Lived and Worked in the Old West End. Here Peter, of Derby, Shares His Latest Findings About His Maternal Grandfather, George Percival Gabb

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, he enlisted with the Nottinghamshire and Derbys...

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