A Presentation Jambiya Dagger, with gold mounts and horn grip, the scabbard with gilt woven decoration and mounts, in its velvet lined case A Silver Mounted Jambiya Dagger, the scabbard with silver and gilt metal woven decoration, (2). Provenance: Field Marshal Sir Roland Gibbs, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC, Chief of the General Staff thence by decent Roland Christopher Gibbs was the youngest son of Major G.M. Gibbs of Cirenchester. He was educated at Eaton and Sandhurst, and commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps, the 60th Rifles, in 1940. He won the Military Cross three years later in North Africa, and received the DSO for his gallantry and leadership during the Battle of the Rhineland in February 1945. In 1966 Gibbs was sent to Aden as Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, and played a leading role in the evacuation and the strengthening of the British presence in the Persian Gulf.
A Presentation Jambiya Dagger, with gold mounts and horn grip, the scabbard with gilt woven decoration and mounts, in its velvet lined case A Silver Mounted Jambiya Dagger, the scabbard with silver and gilt metal woven decoration, (2). Provenance: Field Marshal Sir Roland Gibbs, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC, Chief of the General Staff thence by decent Roland Christopher Gibbs was the youngest son of Major G.M. Gibbs of Cirenchester. He was educated at Eaton and Sandhurst, and commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps, the 60th Rifles, in 1940. He won the Military Cross three years later in North Africa, and received the DSO for his gallantry and leadership during the Battle of the Rhineland in February 1945. In 1966 Gibbs was sent to Aden as Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, and played a leading role in the evacuation and the strengthening of the British presence in the Persian Gulf.
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