Gibbs Family Tree
Colonel John Evelyn Gibbs, MC

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Name John Evelyn Gibbs Title Colonel Suffix MC Born 22 Dec 1879 London - 16 Hyde Park Gardens
Gender Male Baptism 28 Jan 1880 Paddington, London Residence 1891 Wraxall, Somerset Age: 11; Relation to Head of House: Son Residence 1901 Paddington, London Residence 2 Apr 1911 Windsor, Berkshire Died 11 Oct 1932 Tetbury, Gloucestershire - Estcourt Grange
Buried Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire Person ID I1738 Gibbs Family Tree Last Modified 26 Apr 2021
Father Antony Gibbs, of Tyntesfield, b. 10 Dec 1841, London , d. 24 Apr 1907, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset
(Age 65 years)
Mother Janet Louisa Merivale, b. 15 Dec 1850, Kilburn, Middlesex , d. 10 Dec 1909, London
(Age 58 years)
Married 22 Jun 1872 St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington Family ID F796 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Her Serene Highness Helena Frances Augusta Cambridge, Princess of Teck, b. 23 Oct 1899, Grosvenor House,Westminster,London,England , d. 22 Dec 1969, Badmington, Gloucestershire
(Age 70 years)
Married 2 Sep 1919 Windsor, Berkshire - St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Last Modified 11 Jan 2018 Family ID F800 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Baptised 28 January 1880 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College, 1892-7 and Royal Military college, Sandhurst, 1898-9. Died at Estcourt Grange, Gloucestershire, 11th and buried 13th October at Shipton Moyne, Glos. Memorial there.
2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, January 1900. Lieut. November 1901. Served in the South African (Boer) War in operations in Cape Colony July 1901 to May 1902, and was awarded the Queen's medal with three clasps. Adjutant 3rd Battalion Coldstream Gds., Ap. 1904-Ap. 1907. Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India (Earl of Minto) Sep. 1907-June 1910. Captain January 1910.
Acting A.D.C. to Field Marshal Lord Kitchener at the Coronation of King George V, 1911.
In the Great War he served in France and Belgium in 1914. Captured at Gheluvelt 29 October 1914, he was kept a prisoner of war at Stralsund, Heidelburg, Holzminden, Freiberg, etc., in Germany, was transferred to and interned in Holland, Feb., 1918, and was released 12 Jan. 1919. Awarded Military Cross 1920, 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. Major 1915, Lieut. Colonel Ap. 1919, Col. Oct. 1924. Commanded 1st Battalion Coldstream Gds., 1920-21. Commanded 129th (S. Wessex) Infantry Brigade (Territorial) 1928-30. In command of Coldstream Guards Regt. and Regtl. District from Aug. 1930.
Lived from 1927 at Estcourt Grange, Tetbury, Glos. Portrait of himself (as a Russian) and one of his wife (with four dogs) last in possession of David Evelyn Gibbs.
- Baptised 28 January 1880 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College, 1892-7 and Royal Military college, Sandhurst, 1898-9. Died at Estcourt Grange, Gloucestershire, 11th and buried 13th October at Shipton Moyne, Glos. Memorial there.
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Photos Col John Gibbs and Princess Helena.jpg
Documents 1891 England Census - Captain Eustace Lyle Gibbs-1.jpeg