Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu na paragraf a - Amụrụ nwa nke Major Guy Melvil Gibbs na Margaret Gibbs (née St John) ma gụrụ akwụkwọ na Eton College na Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Gibbs bụ onye e nyere ọrụ dịka onye nke abụọ na Kings Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) na 31 Disemba 1939, ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ ọnwa anọ mgbe mbata ndị Britain na Agha Worldwa nke Abụọ. Agbanyeghị, etinyeghị ya n'ọrụ ozugbo, dịka e lere ya anya dị ka onye na-eto eto, ọ nọgidere na United Kingdom ruo mgbe e zigara ya na Battalion nke abụọ, KRRC, mgbe ahụ Lieutenant Colonel George Erskine nyere ya iwu ma na-emezigharị mgbe ọ nwesịrị nnukwu ọnwụ n'oge nnọchibido nke Calais. Gibbs, onye e buliri n'ọkwa lieutenant na 1 Julaị 1941, ga-arụ ọrụ na battalion ahụ maka oge fọdụrụ n'agha ahụ ma tinye ya na battalion ya na North Africa na ngwụcha 1941, e nyere ya Military Cross (MC) na 15 Ọktọba 1942. Mgbe o sonyere na Agha nke Abụọ nke El Alamein, o weghaara iwu nke 'C Company' nke battalion ya na Machị 1943 ma nọrọ n'ọrụ ahụ ruo oge fọdụrụ n'agha ahụ. Na-eduzi ndị otu ya n'oge ikpeazụ nke Mgbasa Ozi Tunisia, na-ekere òkè na mbuso agha nke ndị Allied nke Italy, ndị Normandy na-ebuso agha na agha ndị ọzọ na North West Europe
ruo Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) na Mee 1945. N'oge niile a, site na D-Day ruo VE Day, otu n'ime ndị ọrụ ibe ya bụ Edwin Bramall. Dị ka Gibbs n'onwe ya, akara aka Bramall bụ iru ọkwa kachasị elu. E nyere ya onyinye Distinguished Service Order (DSO) na 2 Ọgọstụ 1945.