Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War D.S.M. group of eight awarded to Chief Petty Officer D. Gibson, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Thunderer at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (J.18221 D. Gibson. C.P.O., R.N.); 1914-15 Star (J.18221 D. Gibson. A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.18221 D. Gibson. A.B., R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J.18221 D. Gibson. P.O., H.M.S. Volunteer) mounted court style, nearly very fine and better (8) £1,000-£1,400

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009.

D.S.M. London Gazette 1 July 1941:
‘For outstanding zeal, Patience and cheerfulness, and for never failing to set an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld’.

David Gibson was born in Crawford, Lanarkshire on 3 May 1896 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in June 1912. Posted to the battleship H.M.S. Thunderer in April 1913, he served in her until September 1917, being promoted to Ordinary Seaman in May 1914 and Able Seaman in January 1915. He was present in Thunderer at the battle of Jutland, 30 May 1916, when the battleship formed part of the 2nd Battle Squadron. For the remainder of the war he was based in Vivid, September to October 1917; Defiance, October 1917 to April 1918, and Blenheim and Goshawk, April 1918 to January 1919.

Gibson was promoted to Leading Seaman in February 1919 whilst at Vivid and to Petty Officer in January 1921 when serving in H.M.S. Resolution. Later as a Chief Petty Officer he was awarded the Jubilee Medal 1935. At the same rank at Cochrane (Rosyth), he was awarded the D.S.M. in the 1941 Birthday Honours.

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