LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Ronald Gordon Vickery GIBBS
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 102128 (RAFVR)
Born: Location, Date Unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date Unavailable
Unit: No. 91 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 91 Squadron Spitfire Vb aircraft AD458), off Kent, 31 October 1942, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Maurice Antony Crutchley Gibbs and Elma Gibbs, of Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 67, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
On 31 October 1942 Flying Officer Gibbs in Spitfire AD458 was scrambled to intercept German aircraft attacking Canterbury where he was shot down by an Fw190 over the English Channel.
References:
Franks, Norman L R Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World war Volume 2 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943, Midland Publishing Leicester UK, 1998
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/34/235