Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookLIAM=, Private, No. G. 3504, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., _s._ of William Gibbard, of 12, Bride Street, Kilburn; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 April, 1915. =GIBBINS, HENRY EDWARD=, Private, No. S. 5356, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., _s._ of William Gibbins, of 61, Mansfield Street, Kingsland Road, N.E.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died at Boulogne, 15 Feb. 1915, of enteric fever while on active service. =GIBBINS, JOHN=, Signalman, J. 3246, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =GIBBONS, CHARLES=, Private, No. G. 120, 7th (Service) Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 28 July, 1915; _m._ =GIBBONS, CHARLES WILLIAM CROWNE=, Private, No. 1518, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest _s._ of the late Charles William Gibbons, by his wife, Emily Marion (now wife of Charles Emery, of 35, Wandle Road, Wandsworth Common, S.W.), dau. of William Johnstone Harris; _b._ London, 2 Dec. 1884; educ. Tennyson Street Council School, Queen's Road, S.W.; enlisted, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 7 Oct. 1914, and was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles W. C. Gibbons.=] =GIBBS, ALBERT WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7975), S.S. 103638, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GIBBS, ALFRED=, Officer's Steward, 3rd Class, L. 5326, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GIBBS, ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9189, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =GIBBS, RONALD CHARLES MELBOURNE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Scots Guards, yr. _s._ of the late Hon. Henry Lloyd Gibbs, of 10, Lennox Gardens, London, partner in the firm of Anthony Gibbs & Sons, of 22, Bishopsgate, E.C., by his wife, Alice Mary (10, Lennox Gardens, S.W.), yst. dau. of the late Gen. Charles Crutchley, of Sunninghill Park, Ascot, co. Berks, and gdsn. of Henry Hucks, 1st Baron Aldenham; _b._ Salisbury, South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, 26 Aug. 1894; educ. Wellington House, Westgate-on-Sea, and Eton College (P. L. Broke's House, where he was in the O.T.C. and received certificate A); gazetted 2nd Lieut., Special Reserve of Officers, 27 Sept. 1913; served with 1st Battn. Scots Guards at Aldershot; and on declaration of war with 3rd Battn.; passed Army Examination, 1914; posted to the 2nd Scots Guards, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; _unm._ Buried at Chateau Gheluvelt. His Commanding Officer, Lord Esme Gordon-Lennox, wrote: "He was a splendid young officer.... He had a charming disposition, and showed such keenness and ability as an officer that the blow was all the harder. Liked by everybody he came in contact with, both officers and men, his death has been a great loss to the Regt." 2nd Lieut. Gibbs rowed in the boats at Eton, 4 June, 1913, and also rowed when their Majesties visited Eton, 16 June, 1913. [Illustration: =Ronald C. M. Gibbs.=] =GIBBS, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12701, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GIBBS, WILLIAM CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4719), 205068, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GIBSON, ALBERT EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5181), 207006, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GIBSON, JOHN=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1638T., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GIBSON, MUNGO CAMPBELL=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N.V.R., eldest _s._ of the late Campbell Gibson, of Messrs. George Gibson & Co., of Leith, Shipowners; _b._ Edinburgh. 11 May, 1890; educ. Cargilfield, Loretto, and in France; was before the war employed in his father's firm; hon. secretary of the Leith Dock Labour Employers' Association from its formation, and Commissioner of the Leith Boy Scouts. On the formation of the Forth Division, R.N.V.R., he was appointed its commanding officer, and in Sept. 1914, was promoted Lieut.-Commander of the Nelson Battn., with which he served in the Antwerp Expedition, and afterwards in the Dardanelles. He was killed in action near Cannon's Post, Gaba Tepe, while leading his company at daybreak, 3 May, 1915, and was buried where he fell. Writing to his father, the Colonel of the Nelson Battn. said: "Your son was a keen and zealous officer and was doing splendidly." He _m._ Edinburgh, 11 July, 1914, Isabel Esmé (23, Dean Park Crescent, Edinburgh), yr. dau. of James Cornwall, late Postmaster-General of the United Provinces, India, and left a dau., Helen Valerie, _b._ 18 April, 1915. [Illustration: =Mungo Campbell Gibson.=] =GIBSON, ROBERT=, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, Capt., 2nd Battn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, eldest _s._ of James Gibson, of 28, Park Gardens North, Glasgow, M.A., late Headmaster of Woodside Higher Grade School, Glasgow; by his wife, Grace, dau. of William Gott; _b._ Glasgow, 30 Nov. 1885; educ. Glasgow High School, and Glasgow University, where he graduated with First Class Honours in Classics in 1908. He gained the Snell Exhibition and Newlands Scholarship and entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated at the end of his course with First Class in Moderations and Greats, and was elected a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol. He was a member of the O.T.C. there, and when war broke out, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B. 15 Aug. 1914, and was afterwards attd. to the 2nd Battn. He was promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. ... and was killed in action near Hill 60, 5-6 May, 1915; _unm._ Lieut. Gibson was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915. =GIDNEY, EDWIN=, Engineer Sub-Lieut., H.M.S. Empress of Russia, R.N.R., _s._ of Charles Gidney, of Jarrow-on-Tyne, Builder, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of William Allison, of Sunderland, Engineer; _b._ Jarrow, 23 Dec. 1873; educ. Higher Grade School there; and served his apprenticeship at Messrs. Palmer's Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, where he was highly esteemed and gained considerable experience in destroyers and torpedo boats. He was afterwards a Marine Engineer, and was latterly employed by the C.P.R. After the outbreak of war he was appointed to H.M. Armed Merchant Cruiser Empress of Russia, and died on her 10 June, 1915, from syncope, following wounds received in action while serving in the Persian Gulf; _unm._ He was buried at sea with full naval honours. [Illustration: =Edwin Gidney.=] =GIFFORD, GEORGE EDWARD=, Leading Stoker (C.G.), 300296 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GIGG, HENRY ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1293), 206559, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in |