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2nd Lt. Edwin Ingram Gibbons
British Army 20th Btn Lancashire Fusiliers
(d.29th Apr 1917)
Edwyn Gibbons was born on 2nd of November 1891. He is shown as Edward on CWGC. Edwin on Registration of birth. Edwyn on Probate and Marriage Registration). His parents were Alfred Robert Gibbons, a newspaper proprietor and author, and Annie Marie Snedker, a reporter. They were married at Lambeth, London in March 1885. Their address, at the time of Edwyn's baptism on 28th of November 1891 in the Parish of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, was recorded as 172 The Strand, London. His mother's death was recorded at Grasse, France in 1898. Between 1906 and 1911 Edwyn attended Charterhouse Boarding School at Godalming, Surrey. In September 1915 he was cited as the third party in the divorce petition of Herbert Francis Fenn, an officer in a UPS battalion. Fenn had married Gladys Archbutt in 1909. Gladys was a well known London-based theatre actress and comedienne of the time. In the 3rd quarter of 1916 Edwin married Gladys Fenn (nee Archbutt).
Edwyn may have joined the 20th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers soon after the raising of the regiment, although, on 20th of February 1916, he is recorded as having attained a Proficiency Certificate in flying a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Military School, Brooklands in Surrey. His death was recorded near Arras on or soon after the 29th Apr 1917.
