Silver, Vertu, Coins & Medals - 19th & 20th July - 19 Jul 2016
An extended Great War group of medals awarded to Major Antony Hubert Gibbs
An extended Great War group of medals awarded to Major Antony Hubert Gibbs, comprising; 1914 Star, clasp 5th Aug-22nd Nov (Major A. H. Gibbs N. Som: Yeo.), War and Victory medals (Major A. H. Gibbs), 1939-45 Defence medal, Coronation medal 1902, Territorial Decoration (awarded 1915), brooch mounted; together with dress miniatures, brooch mounted. Good very fine.
Antony Hubert Gibbs (1874-1957), second son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant North Somerset Yeomanry, 1895; Lieutenant, December 1898; Captain 1904; Major, June 1912. In the Great War served with the North Somerset Yeomanry, 4 August 1914 to Mar. 1917, and was in France with them 2 November 1914 to May 1915. Commanded the 3rd North Somerset Yeomanry at Bath, May 1915-March 1917; served on Quarter Master General's Staff of Southern Command at Salisbury from May 1917 to the end of the War.