Manon Sophia Antonia Grisebach Gibbs

Edward married Henriette Manon Margarete Maren Grisebach [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 28 April 1932 at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks. Educated at Eton 1945-50 and Christ Church, Oxford 1950-53; MA.

Joined Stockbroking firm of Messrs. David A. Bevan Simpson, the firm in which his father was a partner before the Second World War; Partner 1967. Member London Stock Exchange. Partner Messrs, de Zoete & Bevan since 1970.

Died 27 March 2016

Birth:
17 Draycott Avenue,

Michael married Helen Antonia Edmonstone [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Baptised 21 July 1906 at St. George's, Clyst St. George. Educated at Eton College 1919/24 and Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1925-26. Killed in Action near Dunkirk, 1st June 1940.

2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards 1926; Lieut. 1929, Capt. 1940. Served with the Shanghai Defence Force 1927-28. Resigned from the Army, February 1930 and joined British Shareholders' Trust in the City of London, but remained on the Reserve until re-called to serve in the Second World War. Member of the Stock Exchange, and partner in David A. Sevan, Stockbrokers, from 1933-39. He was killed on June 1st 1940 while commanding No. 1 Company, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, at Hondeschoote, six miles behind Dunkirk while forming the rear guard of the B.E.F. He was buried by the villagers and afterwards buried by the War Graves Commission in Warhem Cemetery near Dunkirk. He is mentioned in the following books: "Fight Another Day" by J. M. Langley, published by Collins, 1974;
"No Dishonourable Name" by D. C. Quilter, published by Clowes, 1947; "The Coldstream Guards 1920-1946" by Michael Howard and John Sparrow, pub. by The Oxford University Press, 1951.

Portrait as a child in pastel by H. M. Heaton in possession of grandson Patrick Gibbs.

Died:
Killed in Action

Evan married Monica Elizabeth Wyldbore-Smith on 28 Apr 1930 in Westminster, London. Monica (daughter of Sir Edmund Charles Wyldbore-Smith and Evadne Maude Kellett) was born on 29 Sep 1900 in Lonsdale, Kyle, Wexforth; died on 8 Jul 1973 in Winchester, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Younger daughter of Sir Edmund Wyldbore-Smith, Knt. great-grandson of Sir John Wyldbore-Smith, Baronet), by Evadne Maude, daughter of John Talbot Kellett of Great Glonard, County Wexford. Baptised October 1900 at Kyle.

Married 2ndly 24 October 1957, Lt. Col. Walter Pearce-Serocold, DSO, TD, younger son of Colonel Oswald Pearce-Serocold, CMG, DL, JP of Taplow Hill, Bucks (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry').

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1943, Madgehole Farm, Shamley Green, Guildford, Surrey

Edward married Hon. Alicia Evelyn Browne. Alicia (daughter of John Edward Deane Browne, 5th Baron Kilmaine and Lady Aline Kennedy) was born in 1909; died in 1992. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1943, Madgehole Farm, Shamley Green, Guildford, Surrey