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Picture of Board of Trade Roll of Honour 1914 - 1919
Ministry of Fuel and Power Memorial

J.D. Gibbons

Age at death:
 Born:
 Full Name:John Douglas Gibbons
 Service, Regiment, Corps, etc:Royal Navy
 Unit, Ship, etc:HMS Vimiera
 Enlisted:
 Rank:Signalman C/JX 211604
 Decorations:
 War (and theatre): WW2
 Date of Death:9 January 1942
 Manner of Death:KIA
 Family Details:Son of Harry and Edith Albany Gibbons. Husband of Marian Georgina Edney Gibbons of Westminster, London
 Residence:
 Home Department:Ministry of Fuel and Power
 Civilian Rank:
 Cemetery or Memorial:Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent (Panel 58, 3)

Additional information and photographs:

John Gibbons is commemorated on the Memorial to officers of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, now hanging in DTI headquarters at 1 Victoria Street, London SW1.

HMS Vimiera, a V Class Destroyer, was lost to a mine on 9 January 1942 in the Thames Estuary. (The Admiralty Regrets. British warship losses of the 20th century by Paul Kemp, published by Sutton 1999)

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