1895 - 1949 (54 years)
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Name |
Robert Claud Gibbs |
Title |
Lt. Commander |
Birth |
17 Apr 1895 |
Waltair, Andhra Pradesh, India |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
10 Jun 1949 |
Surrey |
Burial |
West Norwood, Surrey |
Notes |
- Lt. Commander Royal Navy (ret.) Only child. Baptised at Waltair 6 May 1895. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, 1908-10 and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 1910-12. Cremated at West Norwood, Surrey.
Midshipman in the Royal Navy 1913; Sub- Lieut. 1915; Lieutenant 30 April 1917; Retired 1921; obtained rank of Lieut. Commander 30 April 1926. Served throughout the Great War (on HMS's Thunderer and Empress of India at Scapa Flow, Sloop Iris at Queenstown and in submarines in the North Sea), and was awarded the 1914 Star, British War medal, and Allies (Victory) medal. In employ of Minerals Separation Co. London and of allied firms on the Continent 1921-9; in Dorr Oliver Co. Ltd., Sales Engineers, London, from 1929. He and his wife lived from 1931 at Ash Cottage, Garrard Road, Banstead. Associate Member of Institute of Mechanical Engineers 1932. During World War II 1939-45 at Admiralty Offices in Glasgow and London.
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Person ID |
I2026 |
Gibbs Family Tree |
Last Modified |
12 Jan 2018 |
Father |
Robert Tyndall Gibbs, b. 20 May 1865, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire d. 4 Oct 1942, Worcester, Worcestershire (Age 77 years) |
Mother |
Emily Fraser Handcock, b. 31 Jul 1864, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire d. 24 May 1947, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire (Age 82 years) |
Marriage |
3 Apr 1893 |
Waltair, Andhra Pradesh, India |
Family ID |
F926 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Walda Elfriede E. Gruhn, b. 27 Nov 1908, Stettiner Strasse, Berlin, Germany d. 30 Oct 2005, Peterborough, Northamptonshire (Age 96 years) |
Marriage |
15 Mar 1930 |
Berlin, Germany |
Children |
| 1. Iris Walda Gibbs, b. 12 May 1932, 19 Bentinck St., St. Marylebone d. 9 Jun 1932, The Infants Hospital, Vincent Square, London SW1 (Age 0 years) |
| 2. Terence Claud Gibbs, b. 9 Mar 1934, Banstead, Surrey d. 25 Jan 2015, Queensland, Australia (Age 80 years) |
| 3. John Francis Gibbs |
| 4. Jacqueline Sylvia Gibbs, b. 19 Apr 1938, Banstead, Surrey d. 14 Apr 1997, Sutton, Surrey (Age 58 years) |
| 5. Iris Emily Claudette Gibbs, b. 30 Oct 1939, Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales d. 15 May 1957, Chertsey, Surrey (Age 17 years) |
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Family ID |
F927 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
9 Jul 2017 |
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