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Field Marshal Sir Roland Gibbs GCB CBE DSO MC - Signed Military Art
Cranston Fine Arts  Military Art and Artists World War Two Veteran Signatures British Veterans Surnames D to G  Gibbs, Roland |
[UP] - Darling, Sir Kenneth - Davies-Scourfield, Grismond - Deedes, Lord - Dixon, Alex - Drabble, Gordon - Edwards, Mike - Ekins, Joe - Elliott, Cyril - Ervine-Andrews, Harold - Fergusson, J D - Ford, James - Fraser, Stanley - Frost, John - Gibbs, Roland - Gorman, John - Grantham, Bill - Gray, Billy |
Field Marshal Sir Roland Gibbs GCB CBE DSO MC
Having already served in both North Africa and Italy, Gibbs arrived in Normandy on D-Day +2. Preparing to cross the River Orne he was wounded and withdrawn but returned to his company in time to storm the bridge over the Somme at Le Long. Commissioned into the 60th Rifles from RMA Sandhurst in 1940 Roland Gibbs had a long and distinguished career in the British Army and was C-in-C UK Land Forces 1974-76. Roland Gibbs died 31st October 2004.
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