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|Surname and forenames=Gibbon Acton Henry Gordon
|Army number=304047
|Rank=2nd Lieutenant.
|Decorations=George Medal for gallantry as a PoW, Service Awards, Doctor of Laws, Justice of the Peace.
|Date of birth=7/6/1924 at Colchester.
|Age=84 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the General Staff Corps and posted to a Cadet Training Unit.  Commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant 1/1/1944.  Posted to the 1st Mountain Regiment.  Served in Normandy and North West Europe.  Served in India and Pakistan during Partition.  Subsequently served in 45 Field Regiment.  Served in Korea.  Captured as a Prisoner of War and held for two and a half years.  Retired from the Army 31/10/1967.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Gun Position Officer.  Forward Observation Officer.
|Joined Brigade=Early 1944.
|Promotions=Lieutenant 24/5/1947.  Captain 7/6/1951.  Major 7/6/1958.
|Wounded=Yes - as a result of torture while a PoW in Korea.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - in Korea.
|Died/Killed in action=Died in Erne County Hospital 4/10/2008 at the age of 84.
|Home address=Educated at Prep School then Wellington College.  Began a degree Course at Queen's University, Belfast but let after six months to enlist.  Never completed his degree. 
Married Rosamund Hope Lowry (1956 - 1994) and had two daughters.  After leaving the Army he took over his father's farm and engaged in several agricultural developments.  Served as Deputy Lieutenant of Tyrone and as a Justice of the Peace.
|Image Name=Lt_Spud_Gibbon_RA.jpeg
|Image Title=Major Gibbon as a Second Lieutenant.
}}


[[File:Medal_Ribbons_of_Maj_A_H_G_Gibbon_RA.jpeg|600px|thumb|centre|Major Gibbon's Medal Ribbons]]

[[File:Fd_Tp_1_Mtn_Rgt_RA_-_India,_1936.jpeg|800px|thumb|centre|Field Troop 1st Mountain Regiment in India 1936]]