Gibbs Family Tree
Lancelot Merivale Gibbs, Brid. CVO DSO MC
1889 - 1966 (76 years)-
Photos Captain Lancelot Merivale Gibbs DSO MC
Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards and then to the General Staff
BOND OF SACRIFICE - FIRST WORLD WAR PORTRAITS COLLECTION - HU 122595Captain Lancelot Merivale Gibbs DSO MC
Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards and then to the General Staff
BOND OF SACRIFICE - FIRST WORLD WAR PORTRAITS COLLECTION - HU 114987
Documents 1891 England Census - Captain Eustace Lyle Gibbs-1.jpeg
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Name Lancelot Merivale Gibbs Suffix Brid. CVO DSO MC Birth 23 Dec 1889 Wraxall, Somerset Gender Male Baptism 22 Jan 1890 Wraxall, Somerset Residence 1891 Wraxall, Somerset Residence 2 Apr 1911 Windsor, Berkshire Arrival 8 Mar 1928 San Francisco, California, USA Departure Shanghai, China Residence 1931 St Marylebone, London Burial Dec 1966 Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire Death 8 Dec 1966 Gloucestershire Notes - 7th son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 22 January 1890 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College 1902-8. Buried at Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.
2nd Lieut. Somerset Light Infantry 1908; 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards December 1910, Lieut. July 1913. Coronation medal of King George V, 1911. In the Great War: Served in France, August 1914 till 1919. Adjutant, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Gds., November 1914-April 1916. Temporary Captain December 1914-July 1915. Captain July 1915. Staff Captain 1st Guards Brigade April-November 1916. Acting Lieut.-Col. in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Gds. November 1916-March 1917. Acting Major March-May 1917 and December 1917 to February 1918. General Staff Officer (3rd Grade) Guards Division, February to April 1918. Brigade Major 140th Infantry Brigade April 1918 to February 1919. General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (Intelligence) in British section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles February to June, 1919. Military Cross 1916 and bar 1917. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, 1918. Mentioned four times in Despatches. Awarded 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. After the War Adjutant 3rd Battn. Coldstream Gds. June to November 1919. General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, London District, December 1921 to August 1922. Aide de Camp to Lord Rawlinson, the Commander-in-Chief in India, November 1922 to March 1925, and awarded the North West Frontier Medal and one clasp in the Waziristan campaign. Second in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards when part of the Shanghai Defence Force, 1927-28. Commanded the British troops in Paris for Marshal Foch's Funeral, 1929. Lieut. Colonel December 1930, in command of 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards until 1934. A.A.G. War Office, 1934-38; retired pay 1938; Brigadier i/c Administration, London District 1939-45; reverted to retired pay 1945; recalled War Office in connection with Victory March, January-July 1946; reverted to retired pay 1946. Jubilee Medal 1937. Coronation Medal 1953 Coronation. Gentleman at Arms Her Majesty's Bodyguard.
Portrait by Marientrau, at Braishfield.
Person ID I1742 Gibbs Family Tree Last Modified 9 Oct 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) Marriage 22 Jun 1872 St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington Family ID F796 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Marjory Florence Maxwell, b. 24 Apr 1906, Dublin, Ireland d. 5 May 1939 (Age 33 years) Marriage 10 Jul 1929 Westminster, London Children 1. David Evelyn Gibbs, b. 22 May 1931 d. 10 Jul 1998, Salisbury, Wiltshire (Age 67 years) Family ID F801 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 9 Jul 2017
Family 2 Diana Primrose Quilter, b. 9 Jan 1916, St George Hanover Square, London d. 4 Aug 2011, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 95 years) Marriage 25 Feb 1942 Westminster, London Divorce 1945 Family ID F802 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 11 Jan 2018
- 7th son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 22 January 1890 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College 1902-8. Buried at Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.
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