Thom's Irish Who's Who/Gibbon, Colonel Charles Monk

GIBBON, Colonel Charles Monk, C.M.G. (1918), late Royal Irish Fusiliers. Educ.: Sherbourne Preparatory School; Haileybury College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Entered army, 1898; Lieut., 1900; Capt., 1903; Major, 1915; Bt. Lieut.-Col., 1916; graduated at Staff College, 1912; served South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen's medal, four clasps; King's medal, two clasps); India, 1903-10; Director of Military Operations and General Staff Officer, 2nd grade. New Zealand Military Forces, April, 1914; Chief of the General Staff, Sept., 1914; General Staff Officer, 1st grade, 1919; retired pay, 1920. Recns.: hunting, shooting, fishing. A Member of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland; Vice-Pres. Co. Wexford Farmers' Association; son of Surgeon-Major Edward Acton-Gibbon, of Sleedagh; b. 1st Nov., 1877; m. 1911, Margaret, dau. of Alfred Crampton, of London, and has issue one dau. Res.: Sleedagh, Wexford.