Captain Evan Llewellyn Gibbs

1906 - 1940  (34 years)

• Name	Evan Llewellyn Gibbs
  Title	Captain
  Born	17 May 1906	St. Thomas, Devon
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Jun 1940	Dunkirk, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
  	Killed in Action
  Person ID	I2108	Gibbs Family Tree
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Antony Hubert Gibbs, JP,   b. 18 Sep 1874, Wraxall, Somerset ,   d. 28 Jul 1957, Pytte, Clyst St George, Devon  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Mary Mercy Llewellyn,   b. 26 Jun 1875, Langford Court, Burrington, Somerset ,   d. 16 Jan 1956, Pytte, Clyst St George, Devon  (Age 80 years)
  Married	18 Oct 1899	Burrington, Devon
  Family ID	F956	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Monica Elizabeth Wyldbore-Smith,   b. 29 Sep 1900, Lonsdale, Kyle, Wexforth ,   d. 8 Jul 1973, Winchester, Hampshire  (Age 72 years)
  Married	28 Apr 1930	Westminster, London
  Children	1. Michael Edmund Hubert Gibbs,   b. 31 Mar 1932, Chelsea, London ,   d. 27 Mar 2016, London  (Age 83 years)   2. Lt. Col. Sir Peter Evan Wyldbore Gibbs, LVO, CVO, KCVO,   b. 1 Feb 1934, Chelsea, London ,   d. 6 Sept 2001, Clyst St George, Devon  (Age 67 years)   3. Evadne Jane Gibbs,   b. 17 May 1938, Chelsea, London ,   d. 7 Jun 2020  (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	9 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F957	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 17 May 1906 - St. Thomas, Devon Married - 28 Apr 1930 - Westminster, London Died - 1 Jun 1940 - Dunkirk, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France  = Link to Google Earth