Letitia Ethel Boyce: Gibbs Family Tree

Gibbs Family Tree

1909 - 2002 (93 years)

Generation: 1

Letitia Ethel Boyce was born on 21 Mar 1909 in Plymouth, Devon; died in Oct 2002 in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire.

Notes:

Younger daughter of Brigadier General Harry Augustus Boyce, CMG, DSO, of Farringdon House, Alton, Hampshire, by Minnie Gabrielle Williams of Dublin. Educated at Royal School, Bath and London School of Economics.

Joined the W.R.N.S. as a 3rd Officer in August 1939 and served as a Cypher Officer at Gosport, Liverpool and Portsmouth (both in the Dockyard and, later, at Fort Southwick). She was selected to be Senior Cypher Officer in the Headquarters Ship S.S. Franconia during the Yalta Conference. Became a 1st Officer, and awarded the M.B.E. for services then and during the preparations for the invasion of France. Resigned 1945. A member of the Grants Committee for the W.R.N.S. Benevolent Trust, and, for some time, Emergency Training Organiser for the Buckinghamshire Women's Voluntary Services (W.R.V.S.).

Letitia married Captain Ralph Cyril Medley, DSO, OBE on 16 Jun 1934 in Farringdon Church, Hungerford, Berkshire. Ralph (son of Dudley Julius Medley and Isabel Alice Gibbs) was born on 2 Oct 1906 in Burton Seagrave, Northamptonshire; died in 1999 in Chilton House Nursing Home. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Shirley Vivienne Medley was born in 1935.
3. Carolyn Medley

Generation: 2

Shirley Vivienne Medley

(1.Letitia¹) was born in 1935.

Family/Spouse: Robert Antony Lewis Phipps. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

3. Carolyn Medley (1.Letitia¹)
Family/Spouse: Ian Richard Taylor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]