PILOT'S D.F.C.
SON OF LATE POLICE OFFICER
Acting Flight Lieutenant Thomas Patrick Gibson, R.A.F.,. who, as announced by cable yesterday, has been awarded. the. Distinguished Flying Cross, was the son of one of the bestknown police officers in the South Island, Inspector Thomas Gibson, who died on Sunday last, shortly after he had retired from the Police Force.
Flight Lieutenant Gibson was born at Christchurch in 1913, and was educated at Timaru Boys' High School and the Sacred Heart College, Auckland. He left New Zealand early in 1938 to take up a short-service commission in the Royal Air Force.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 77, 27 September 1941, Page 11
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