Lieutenant-Colonel J.T. Gibson
1/5th Battalion, Welch Regiment
“Hoot” Gibson was the hero of many daring escapes. In India, Africa, Sicily, Italy and France, and other fighting fronts wherever the Wech Regiment was in the thick of battle, soldiers talked of him as a dashing, fearless leader whom they would follow “into hell.” In between battles he found time to indulge in hunting and yachting.
(Liverpool Daily Post, 5 Oct 1944, 4)
Born on 18 September 1903 in Deal, Kent, Jack Tremayne Gibson was a sportsman, naturalist and big game hunter. A graduate of RMC, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Welch Regiment in 1923 and served with the King’s African Rifles from 1930 to 1936. He participated in almost every theatre India to North Africa to Europe. He fought with the 1st Battalion, Welch Regiment, surviving the near destruction of the unit twice in Crete and Libya.
