Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of three to Captain T. P. Gibbons, Hertfordshire Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Pilling Gibbons), in hinged glass-fronted wooden case, last good very fine, others extremely fine (4) £700-800

M.C. London Gazette 2 June 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 25 May 1917.

Captain Thomas Pilling Gibbons, the son of Sir Thomas and Lady Mary Gibbons, was killed in action whilst serving with the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment, on 22 March 1918, aged 23 years. Originally buried where he fell, some 2,000 yard N.N.E. of Roisel, his body was later exhumed and reburied in the Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension. Sold with some photocopied research.