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overseas with No.3, Can. Stationary
Hospital, and was attached to
A.D.M.S. Staff, Shorncliffe. Transferred to the Dardenelles; saw much service
at. Lemnos Island; returned to England and was given command at the opening of
the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Buxton, June 1916; was here promoted Lt.-Col.;
remained until Nov., 1917, when he was attached to Headquarters Staff, London,
and visited Canadian patients in Imperial hospitals; Western Command;
transferred and took command Epsom Hosp., June, 1918 (4,200 beds); remained
here until hospital closed, Sept., 1919. Returned to Canada
Sept., and was appointed Medical Health Officer, No.1 Health District; resigned
and was appointed Medical Director for the Provincial Saskatchewan Health Quarters,
Regina. Held this until June, 1922;
resumed private practice. Col. Guest is Past Deputy Grand Master, Masonic
Lodge, No.3 Dist.; past president of the Alumni of the Western
University; past president Medical
Assn., St. Thomas; member Knights
of Pythias; Oddfellows; member Wascana Country Club. Address, Regina,
Sask.
GIBBS: James, president Board of Trade, Melfort, merchant (Crawford,
Gibbs, Ltd.) Born at Dunlop in Ayrshire, Scotland,
1890, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Motherwell) Gibbs. Married Margaret Doran,
1912 and' has one son. Educated Dunlop and Kilmarnock
schools. Father, Mr. Robert Gibbs, in the meat-packing business in Dunlop for
many years. Mr. Gibbs was apprenticed to the dry goods business (Ross &
Co.), Kilmarnock. Came to Canada,
1911, to Winnipeg; with Gaults,
Ltd., five and a half years, as buyer. Opened business in Innisfail,
Alberta, with present partner, F. G.
Crawford, Esq. Came to Melfort, 1917, and opened present business, which they
have enlarged and built up until to-day it is one of the largest houses in the
north. Mr. Gibbs takes a keen interest in civic and community affairs; is a
director of the
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