In travel records in Jun 1930, Flt Lt Douglas W Gibbon was travelling, 1st Class, from Yokohama, Japan to London, England on the Mantua. He gives the address Langley, Tower Road, Hatch End, Middlesex (father’s address) as his English address and Egypt as his Permenant Residence[2].
Death
He was killed piloting an RAF plane, afternoon of 30 Nov 1930[3], age 25 yrs. His Arvo plane crashed in a field at the large Pinner Park farm, NE side of Pinner. He was the only occupant and was killed instantly.
Sources
↑ Name: Douglas Wells Gibbon
Registration Year: 1905
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Woolwich
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1d
Page: 1242
Source Information
FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.
↑ Name: Douglas W Gibbon
Birth Date: abt 1906
Age: 24
Port of Departure: Yokohama, Japan
Arrival Date: 27 Jun 1930
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: Plymouth
Ship Name: Mantua
Search Ship Database: Search for the Mantua in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping line: Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd
Official Number: 127544
Source Citation
The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 935; Item: 50
Source Information
Ancestry.com. UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Original data: Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces
↑ Name: Douglas W Gibbon
Death Age: 25
Birth Date: abt 1905
Registration Date: Dec 1930
Registration district: Hendon
Inferred County: Middlesex
Volume: 3a
Page: 351
Source Information
Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.
Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office
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