Captain Alexander Gibb

Royal Field Artillery

A member of Lodge Panmure No.299

Image and Information taken from the Arbroath Roll of Honour for the 1914-1918 War

Killed 12th October 1916

Captain Alexander Reid Gibb, Royal Field Artillery, Arbroath, forty-one years of age, was the son of John Smith Gibb, treasurer of the Edinburgh and Leith Gas Commission. After leaving Edinburgh University, he was for some time with Mr J. Gordon Mason, S.S.C., Edinburgh, and in 1906 he entered into partnership with Mr H. Victor Neill, solicitor, Arbroath. Captain Gibb was well-known when in Edinburgh as an athlete and an all-round sportsman, and he was at one time a prominent cross-country runner.

In Arbroath he took a keen interest in tennis, and when called away on active service he was treasurer of the Club. He' was also an enthusiastic golfer, and as a member of the Arbroath Club was a winner of the Storrer Cup.

As a Freemason he was a member of Lodge Panmure (No. 299) and held the office of Deputy-Master. To the Arbroath Literary Club he had contributed interesting papers. Soon after coming to Arbroath he became an officer in the Forfarshire Battery R.F.A., with which he left for the front in1915. He, however, was subsequently transferred to a regular battery and was attached to the Highland Brigade.

On the 12th of October 1916 he was hit by a shell while observing from a front trench, and died almost instantaneously. The Colonel in command of the Brigade said that during the short time Captain Gibb had been with him he had done some exceptionally good work, and that he was very popular with everybody.

He was a member of Lodge Panmure No.299 in Arbroath