George Gribble

[2] In 1897 Farrier-Sergeant Gribble was one of four members selected to go to England for training and to represent the Colonies in military competitions in celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

The experiences of his father, who had been ‘bailed up’ by Ben Hall and his gang, when carting wool to Sydney in 1862, may have helped inform his performance.

At home, he was not only a prominent rugby footballer and cricketer, but he was also renowned as a champion steel-quoit player, being undefeated in local club competition for a period of ten years.

In 1893 he was brought before the Queanbeyan Police Court to answer a charge of stealing seed-corn from another farmer stowed at the Ginninderra Blacksmith's Shop.

At home, he made a good living as a partner in the Gribble brothers’ butcher's shop in the village of Hall and in hiring out the family's farm equipment.

[9] George Gribble's nephew, Ernie, died from terrible injuries after being trapped in the fly-wheel during an accident with the family's traction engine.