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WAR OFFICE, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE, SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON, S.W.7, 15th May 1919.
No. F1/170 (Accounts 4). Sir. I am directed to inform you that the Command Paymaster,
Eastern Command, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, S. Kensington,
London, S.W.7, has been authorised to issue to the Reverend James
Bury to your care the sum of forty nine pounds
three shillings and four pence. Enclosures
being the amount due from Army Funds to the estate of the late
Major. the Reverend J.Fitzgibbon M.C.
Royal Army Chaplain Department
Should no communication on this subject be received from
the Paymaster within the next few days, application for payment
should be made to him by letter. The above statement is made up as follows:—
Gratuity under contract
pay 1st to 18th September
allowances 1st August-18th September
back belonging to deceased £.s.d.
31.10.0
9.9.0
6.16.9 1.8.9
£49.3.4 I am, Sir
Your obedient Servant, C Harris
Assistant Financial Secretary. Quinlin Esq. Solicitor. Middle Abbey Street Dublin
Letter from C. Harris of the War Office regarding the financial issue which arose
after the death of Fr. Fitzgibbon (1882-1918) .Fr John 'Jack' Fitzgibbon SJ was ordained
a priest on 31st July 1915. His father, John Fitzgibbon, was a successful draper and
Member of Parliament from 1910-1918. Fr Fitzgibbon served in the 6th Division of the
British Army, having enlisted shortly after the death of his brother at Gallipoli.
He was promoted to senior chaplain in 1917, and in the same year he was gassed at
Loos on 5th September and awarded the military cross. Fr Fitzgibbon was killed in
action by a shell on the 18th September 1918, and is buried at Trefcon, St. Quentin,
Picardie.