Harold Charles Lehr Gibson (1885/87-1960): Gibson was a senior member of the SIS and was Head of Station in various eastern european countries from 1919 on. On 12.6.1947, Harold Gibson, “attached to a department of the Foreign Office”, is gazetted a Companion of the Order of the St Michael and St George. He was awarded the US Legion of Merit – this was gazetted in The London Gazette of 23.7.1948, when he was listed as a temporary Major, Army N° 115076. His first wife was one Rachel Kalmanoviecz (died 1947), after which he married Ekaterina Alfimov. His younger brother Archibald, a journalist with “The Times”, was Head of Station in Bucharest towards the end of WW2. Gibson retired in 1958 as a Major, albeit an Acting Major and was found shot dead on 24 August 1960 at 25 Via Antonio Bosio, Rome. The official reason was suicide due to “money problems”.


