Sgt. Gibson was serving with 15 OTU. He was a crew member of Wellington IC X3171 which took off from Harwell on a cross country training flight. Control of the aircraft was lost whilst flying in cloud and dived almost vertically into the ground. All the crew died.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses: Vol.7; Operational Training Units 1940-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6
He was in the same crash as Sgt. W.S. Gibson
He is remembered in Greenhaugh on G54.01
