George Antony Alessio Gibbs

Nicholas married Marzia Maria Guilia Marzia (daughter of H. E. Ambassador Alessio Carissimo and Contessa Maria Zecca) was born in 1966 in Rome, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Younger daughter of H. E. Ambassador, Alessio Garissimo, Italian Diplomatic Corps., by Contessa Maria, 3rd daughter of Conte Guiseppe Zecca and Elisabella, daughter of Marchesi Carmicia.

Educated at the American School, Caracas, Venezuela, and London School of Economics.

Worked at Smith Kline and Beecham (now Glaxo) 1994-96. Fluent in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French.

Marriage dissolved March 1998

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2nd son. Born 1 February 1934 and baptised 14 March 1934 at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks. Educated at Eton 1947-52.

1952 Visited the Union of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Novemer 1952 enlisted as National Service conscript. 25 July 1955 Commissioned into Coldstream Guards as 2nd Lieut. 1953-55 served with 2nd Battalion in British Army of the Rhine. Lieutenant 24 July 1955. 1956-57 served at Guards Depot. 1957-60 with 1st Battalion in BAOR and UK. 1960-62 GSO3 1st Guards Brigade. Captain 1 Feb. 1961. 1962-64 Adjutant Mons Officer Cadet School. 1964-67 with 1st Battalion in BAOR, Libya, Aden, British Honduras and UK. 1967-69 served at Guards Depot. Major 31 March 1967. 1969-72 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General Headquarters London District. 1972-73 with 1st Battalion in N. Ireland, UK and Berlin. 1973-74 with 2nd Battalion as Second in Command in UK, Sharjah and Cyprus. Lieutenant Colonel 30 June 1974.1975-77 Commanded 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards in UK and N. Ireland. 1977-80 Assistant Adjutant General Headquarters London District.

General Service Medal with Clasp 'South Arabia' (1966); General Service Medal with Clasp 'Northern Ireland' (1972); United National Medal (Cyprus) 1974; Jubilee Medal 1977.

Coordinator State Funeral of Earl Mountbatten of Burma (5 September 1979).

Private Secretary H.R.H. The Princess Anne The Princess Royal 1982-1997. K.C.V.O. 6 October 1997.

Died 6 September 2001 and buried at Clyst St. George.

Birth:
17 Draycott Avenue

Peter married Jane Duncombe Howell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alessio married Contessa Maria Zecca. [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').

Arthur married Beryl Stuart Bowater on 9 Apr 1931 in St George Hanover Square, London. Beryl (daughter of Frank Henry Bowater, 1st Baronet of Friston and Ethel Anita Fryar) was born on 11 Dec 1902 in Lewisham, London; died on 15 Oct 1987 in Sherborne, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]