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Major John Gibsone - 17th Lancers
1838 May – date of birth, son of General John Charles Hope Gibsone.
8th Dec 1854 – cornet in the 17th Lancers.
1854 Oct 25th – The Charge of the Light Brigade.
26 Feb 1855 – promoted to Lieutenant 17th Lancers.
16 July 1855 - sailed with 8th Hussars on ST golden Fleece for the Crimea. He served in the Eastern campaign and saw action in the Siege and the Fall of Sebastopol and was awarded the Crimean Medal and Sebastopol clasp. He was at the Battle of The Tchernaya (16 Aug 1855) in support of the French and Sardinian defence position over the river Chernaya against a large assault force of Russian cavalry and bridging engineers. The attack was intended to relieve siege of Sebastopol by the Allies nut was defeated by the smaller Allied force. Mary Seacole and Tolstoy were present.
Gibsone was awarded the Turkish Medal.
John Gibsone brought back a wooden finger sign ‘To Headquarters and Balaklava’ dated 1854, now in the National Army Museum Accession No 1960-08-50-1.
1857 – Gibsone served in the Indian Mutiny campaign at Baroda and other minor affairs until 1859 and received the Mutiny Medal (without clasp).
1858 – in field service.
1859 May – promoted to Captain 17th lancers, aged 22.
1860 Dec – married Mary Ann Hughes-Hallett (18 years old) at Petham Canterbury Kent, whose father the Revd Hughes Hallett conducted the service.
1861 Census – living at 3 Albion Place, Maidstone as lodgers. Two sons and one daughter.
1862 Sept – Captain in the 19th Foot.
1862 Sept – Adjutant of the Leicestershire Yeomanry.
1871 census - aged 32, five children and five servants.
1874 Sept – Temporary Captain.
1880 Feb – resigned commission.
1886- appointed Justice of Peace JP for Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Midlothian.
1911 Census – with the rank of Honorary Major, living at Red Cross Lodge, 8 Warwick Road, Leamington Spa, with Mary Ann and 8 children, note that 13 children has been born alive.
1913 May – died aged 75 years.