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John Angel Gibbs, photograph
Mounted studio photographic portrait of John Angel Gibbs, in his uniform as a Major in the Welch Regiment, about 1916.
John Angel Gibbs was founder of the shipping firm, Gibbs & Co. Ltd of Newport in 1907. He was killed in 1917 leading his battalion in an attack on Menin Ridge. In 1917 his widow, Gladys, bought the Taff Vale Railway hotel at Penarth Docks and gave it to the National Children's Home in memory of John. The J.A. Gibbs Home opened on 24 October 1918 as a nautical training school for orphans of the First World War and children from deprived families.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
87.8I
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Gibbs, John Angel
Association Type: associated person
Associated Person/Body: Gibbs & Co.
Association Type: company name
Creation/Production
unknown
Acquisition
Donation
Measurements
mount
(mm): 180
mount
(mm): 116
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
card
Location
In store
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