Son of Alexander Gibb; husband of Rosina Sarah Gibb, of 38, Anglesea Road, Ipswich. M.D.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
GIBB, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, M.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, eldest son of Alexander Gibb, of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ipswich, J.P., by his wife, Jessie Violet, daughter of Donald Coghill, of Wick, Caithness; born Ipswich, 17 June, 1872; educated Ipswich School, Edinburgh University, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, London University, and Vienna; Matriculated at Edinburgh and London, 1889; married. B., C.M., 1895; married. D., 1900, and was successively House Surgeon, Royal Infirmary and Skin Dispensary, Edinburgh; Gloucester Royal Infirmary and Eye Institution, and Noble Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man; Clinical Assistant to the Ear, Throat and Nose Hospital, Golden Square, and the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London. He then took up practice in Ipswich about 1900 and became Assistant Hon. Surgeon to the Ipswich and Suffolk Hospital, and Public Vaccinator for Ipswich Union; Member of the Red Cross Council of the County of Suffolk and the Scout Council; District Staff; District St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Lecturer to St. John Ambulance Association. While at Edinburgh he joined the University Company of the 1st V.B. Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers in 1898, serving for four years in the ranks, and later becoming Lieutenant in the Harwich Infantry Brigade Bearer Company, R.A.M.C. He was gazetted Captain to the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance at its formation, and on 16 July, 1912, was transferred to the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion Suffolk Regiment as Medical Officer. He was promoted Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 3 Dec. 1913, and after the outbreak of the War, was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Anglian Casualty Clearing Station, 22 Dec. 1914. He raised the unit solely through his personal influence, both with regard to officers and men. He died at the Eastern General Hospital, Birmingham, 10 March, 1915, of pleurisy and pneumonia, contracted on active service. Dr. Gibb received the Coronation medal and was Honorary Associate of the Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. He married at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, 20 Sept. 1905, Rosina Sarah, only daughter of James Bullock, of Westbury, co. Wilts; s.p.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
GIBB, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, M.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, eldest son of Alexander Gibb, of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ipswich, J.P., by his wife, Jessie Violet, daughter of Donald Coghill, of Wick, Caithness; born Ipswich, 17 June, 1872; educated Ipswich School, Edinburgh University, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, London University, and Vienna; Matriculated at Edinburgh and London, 1889; married. B., C.M., 1895; married. D., 1900, and was successively House Surgeon, Royal Infirmary and Skin Dispensary, Edinburgh; Gloucester Royal Infirmary and Eye Institution, and Noble Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man; Clinical Assistant to the Ear, Throat and Nose Hospital, Golden Square, and the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London. He then took up practice in Ipswich about 1900 and became Assistant Hon. Surgeon to the Ipswich and Suffolk Hospital, and Public Vaccinator for Ipswich Union; Member of the Red Cross Council of the County of Suffolk and the Scout Council; District Staff; District St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Lecturer to St. John Ambulance Association. While at Edinburgh he joined the University Company of the 1st V.B. Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers in 1898, serving for four years in the ranks, and later becoming Lieutenant in the Harwich Infantry Brigade Bearer Company, R.A.M.C. He was gazetted Captain to the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance at its formation, and on 16 July, 1912, was transferred to the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion Suffolk Regiment as Medical Officer. He was promoted Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 3 Dec. 1913, and after the outbreak of the War, was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Anglian Casualty Clearing Station, 22 Dec. 1914. He raised the unit solely through his personal influence, both with regard to officers and men. He died at the Eastern General Hospital, Birmingham, 10 March, 1915, of pleurisy and pneumonia, contracted on active service. Dr. Gibb received the Coronation medal and was Honorary Associate of the Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. He married at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, 20 Sept. 1905, Rosina Sarah, only daughter of James Bullock, of Westbury, co. Wilts; s.p.
Son of Alexander Gibb; husband of Rosina Sarah Gibb, of 38, Anglesea Road, Ipswich. M.D.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
GIBB, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, M.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, eldest son of Alexander Gibb, of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ipswich, J.P., by his wife, Jessie Violet, daughter of Donald Coghill, of Wick, Caithness; born Ipswich, 17 June, 1872; educated Ipswich School, Edinburgh University, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, London University, and Vienna; Matriculated at Edinburgh and London, 1889; married. B., C.M., 1895; married. D., 1900, and was successively House Surgeon, Royal Infirmary and Skin Dispensary, Edinburgh; Gloucester Royal Infirmary and Eye Institution, and Noble Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man; Clinical Assistant to the Ear, Throat and Nose Hospital, Golden Square, and the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London. He then took up practice in Ipswich about 1900 and became Assistant Hon. Surgeon to the Ipswich and Suffolk Hospital, and Public Vaccinator for Ipswich Union; Member of the Red Cross Council of the County of Suffolk and the Scout Council; District Staff; District St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Lecturer to St. John Ambulance Association. While at Edinburgh he joined the University Company of the 1st V.B. Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers in 1898, serving for four years in the ranks, and later becoming Lieutenant in the Harwich Infantry Brigade Bearer Company, R.A.M.C. He was gazetted Captain to the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance at its formation, and on 16 July, 1912, was transferred to the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion Suffolk Regiment as Medical Officer. He was promoted Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 3 Dec. 1913, and after the outbreak of the War, was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Anglian Casualty Clearing Station, 22 Dec. 1914. He raised the unit solely through his personal influence, both with regard to officers and men. He died at the Eastern General Hospital, Birmingham, 10 March, 1915, of pleurisy and pneumonia, contracted on active service. Dr. Gibb received the Coronation medal and was Honorary Associate of the Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. He married at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, 20 Sept. 1905, Rosina Sarah, only daughter of James Bullock, of Westbury, co. Wilts; s.p.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
GIBB, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, M.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, eldest son of Alexander Gibb, of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ipswich, J.P., by his wife, Jessie Violet, daughter of Donald Coghill, of Wick, Caithness; born Ipswich, 17 June, 1872; educated Ipswich School, Edinburgh University, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, London University, and Vienna; Matriculated at Edinburgh and London, 1889; married. B., C.M., 1895; married. D., 1900, and was successively House Surgeon, Royal Infirmary and Skin Dispensary, Edinburgh; Gloucester Royal Infirmary and Eye Institution, and Noble Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man; Clinical Assistant to the Ear, Throat and Nose Hospital, Golden Square, and the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London. He then took up practice in Ipswich about 1900 and became Assistant Hon. Surgeon to the Ipswich and Suffolk Hospital, and Public Vaccinator for Ipswich Union; Member of the Red Cross Council of the County of Suffolk and the Scout Council; District Staff; District St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Lecturer to St. John Ambulance Association. While at Edinburgh he joined the University Company of the 1st V.B. Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers in 1898, serving for four years in the ranks, and later becoming Lieutenant in the Harwich Infantry Brigade Bearer Company, R.A.M.C. He was gazetted Captain to the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance at its formation, and on 16 July, 1912, was transferred to the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion Suffolk Regiment as Medical Officer. He was promoted Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 3 Dec. 1913, and after the outbreak of the War, was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Anglian Casualty Clearing Station, 22 Dec. 1914. He raised the unit solely through his personal influence, both with regard to officers and men. He died at the Eastern General Hospital, Birmingham, 10 March, 1915, of pleurisy and pneumonia, contracted on active service. Dr. Gibb received the Coronation medal and was Honorary Associate of the Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. He married at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, 20 Sept. 1905, Rosina Sarah, only daughter of James Bullock, of Westbury, co. Wilts; s.p.
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My Dear Husband
Colonel W. A. GIBB M.D.
Who Died March 10th 1915
Aged 42 Years
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