Lt. Commander Robert Claud Gibbs

1895 - 1949  (54 years)

• 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.
  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, Berlin, Germany d. 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)
  Family ID	F927	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jul 2017

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Apr 1895 - Waltair, Andhra Pradesh, India Marriage - 15 Mar 1930 - Berlin, Germany Death - 10 Jun 1949 - Surrey Burial - - West Norwood, Surrey  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Robert Claud Gibbs 1940