1884 - 1916 (31 years)
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| Name |
Noel Martin Gibbs |
| Title |
Lieut. |
| Birth |
25 Dec 1884 |
Barrow Gurney, Somerset  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
20 Mar 1916 |
Kahe, German East Africa |
- Killed in action in the Great War
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| Burial |
Moschi, Tanzania |
| Notes |
- Baptised 1 January 1885 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College 1898-9 (Miss Evans' house)' Radley College 1899-1902.
Died unmarried, being killed in the Great War on the the bank of the river Ruhu near Kahe in German East Africa and was buried next day near Kahe Ry. Station, and re-buried after the War in the cemetery at Moschi in that country.
Memorial Inscriptions in Barrow Gurney Churchyard, Barrow Court chapel. Eton College War Memorial and Muthaiga War Memorial in British East Africa. Will proved in East Africa.
2nd Lieut. 4th Bn. (Militia Bn.), The Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry, Sep. 1902; Lieut., October 1903. Resigned April 1908. Went to British East Africa first in 1906; farmed there (successively at N. Tabibbi, Naivasha, and Nakuru) till his death. In the Great War enlisted in the East African Mounted Rifles, September 1914, and was in operations near Kisi on Lake Victoria and near Mt. Kilimanjaro, in German E. Africa. Recommended for a commission. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal—issued to his father.
Portraits: by F. Crawley-Boevey (1894); by Ogilvie; and a min.; all three last in possession of Martin Antony Gibbs.
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| Person ID |
I2380 |
Gibbs Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
30 Jun 2020 |
| Father |
Henry Martin Gibbs, High Sheriff, Somerset, b. 30 May 1850, Paddington, London d. 22 Apr 1928, Barrow Gurney, Somerset (Age 77 years) |
| Mother |
Emily Anna Otter, b. 6 Mar 1854, Cowfold, Sussex d. 5 Jul 1928, Fyfield, Berkshire (Age 74 years) |
| Marriage |
22 Jun 1883 |
Lindfield, Sussex |
| Family ID |
F798 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Gibbs Family Tree
