1. Sir Philip Armand Thomas Hamilton Gibbs KBE, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, was an English journalist and author who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War.
10 Facts About Philip Gibbs
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The son of a civil servant, Gibbs was born in Kensington, London.
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Philip Gibbs received a home education and determined at an early age to develop a career as a writer.
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Philip Gibbs was given the post of literary editor at Alfred Harmsworth's leading tabloid format newspaper the Daily Mail.
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Philip Gibbs subsequently worked on other prominent newspapers including the Daily Express.
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The Times, in 1940 referring to 1909, credited Philip Gibbs for "bursting the bubble with one cable to the London newspaper he was representing".
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Philip Gibbs' work appeared in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Chronicle.
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Philip Gibbs produced a stream of newspaper articles and a series of books: The Soul of the War, The Battle of the Somme, From Bapaume to Passchendaele and The Realities of War.
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Philip Gibbs was awarded KBE in the 1920 civilian war honours.
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The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 brought Philip Gibbs a renewed appointment as a war correspondent, this time for the Daily Sketch.