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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Pontypridd
• Land Mid Glamorgan, Wales
• Family Only Son of Frederic and Mary May Gibson, of 22, Llantwit Rd., Treforest, Glam.
• Education Colston School, Stapleton
• Profession architect

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment August 1914
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Attached or transferred from 11th - Bn. - West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
• Other data related to military career Enlisted with the 5th Bn. Welsh Regiment; Gallipoli; Suvla Bay; wounded in the chest; on recovery joined Recruiting Staff; RFC, June 1916

Death

• Wounded 10 August; artillery patrol with RE8 A4293, left 6.15 p.m.; combat, attacked by nine Albatross Scouts; shot up, damaged, landing aerodrome; the pilot, Lt Pickett survived after having crash-landed on Abeele aerodrome;
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds on chest and right leg at n°3 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XV - A - 14

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