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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 25

An Order of St. John Group of Six to Lieutenant-Colonel F.W. Gibbon, Royal Army Medical Corps
a) The Most Venerable Order of St. John, Knight of Grace's set of Insignia, neck Badge, silver and enamel; Star, silver and enamel, with gold retaining pin
b) Coronation 1902, silver
c) Coronation 1911
d) Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1892) and silver-gilt, reverse engrved ‘Surg.-Major F. W. Gibbon, 1st Durham R.E.’, with integral top riband bar
e) Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, V.R. (Surgeon Captain F. W. Gibbon, 1st. D.V.R.E. May 1896 Army Med. Res.)
f) Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1919) and silver-gilt, unnamed, with integral top riband bar, generally very fine or better, mounted court style for wear, together with a portrait photograph of the recipient (7)

Knight of Grace, Order of St. John London Gazette 20.4.1906 Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Gibbon, V.D., L.R.C.P.

V.D. London Gazette 4.12.1900 Surgeon-Major Frederick William Gibbon, 1st Durham Royal Engineers (Volunteers)

T.D. London Gazette 14.1.1920 Lt.-Col. Frederick W. Gibbon, V.D., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. Tyne Electrical Engrs.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Gibbon (1862-1938), born Seaham Harbour, Co. Durham; educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at Durham University; College of Medicine; elected a Fellow of the Obstetricians Society of London, he served as a Medical Examiner of Army and Militia Recruits, Surgeon to the Juvenile Oddfellows, and Medical Referee to a number of Assurance Companies. He later became a Member of the British Medical Association, a Fellow of the British Institute of Public Health, Medical Officer of the Tyne Dock and West Harton District, Public Vaccinator to the West Harton District, and Consulting Physician to the Victoria Home for Diseases of Women in Newcastle. Within the Order of St. John, appointed an Examiner of the St. John Ambulance Association, 1899; Assistant Commissioner in Charge of the 6th District of the S.J.A.B., 1904; Deputy Commissioner, 1908.

After joining the ranks of the Volunteers in 1875, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 2nd Northumberland Rifle Corps, May 1881; promoted Lieutenant, July 1881; Captain, February 1882; appointed Acting Surgeon, 5th Volunteer Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, May 1884; Acting Surgeon, 1st Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Durham Royal Engineer Volunteers, May 1887; promoted Surgeon, February 1889; awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, April 1896 (Army Order 77); promoted Surgeon-Major, September 1900; awarded Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, this published in London Gazette 4 December 1900; appointed Medical Officer, Tyne Division, Royal Engineer Volunteers, May 1903; promoted Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, March 1906. During the Great War served as Officer Commanding the Military Hospital at Gosport, at Ripon, and at Grimsby, 1914-16, and subsequently President of No.1 Travelling Medical Board, Northern Command; retired, November 1921. Lieutenant-Colonel Gibbon, V.D., was awarded the T.D. on 14 January 1920. He retired on 10 November 1921.

Provenance: J.M.A. Tamplin Collection, March 2009.

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