Gilbey Quinton Holland Lt 120038
Personnel Entry
Name Gilbey Quinton Holland
Army number 120038
Rank Lt
Decorations
Date of birth 9/6/1899
Age 0
Unit Grenadier Guards - Commissioned as 2/Lt 20/12/1918, Resigned 10/6/1920, Placed on Reserve of Officers - Grenadier Guards. Embodied 24/8/1939, Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned 2/Lt 21/2/1940, retaining seniority, Posted 11th Bn DLI 26/2/1940, Posted 70th Bde HQ 29/2/1940, Sick leave May 1940, Iceland, Ceased to belong to the Reserve of Officers on the grounds of ill-health 4/3/1942.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade 26/2/1940
Promotions W/S Lt 26/2/1941
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action
Home address Son of Lt Colonel Alfred Gilbey JP of Woodburn, Bucks and his wife Beatrice Elizabeth. Educated Eton and Sandhurst. Married 1927 Elizabeth Thornton (dissolved 1930). 19, Chelsea Lodge, File Street, London SW3.
Source table 11DLI
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It is not yet clear whether Lt Gilbey was with Brigade HQ while they were part of the B.E.F. in 1940.
