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Brigadier General Gladwyn Dundas JEBB CMG CBE DSO Ordre de Leopold (Chevalier)
2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment and General Staff Date of birth: 27th March 1877 Date of death: 19th August 1947 Died aged 70 Unknown
Gladwyn Dundas Jebb was born at Barnby Moor House, East Retford in Nottinghamshire on the 27th of March 1877 the third son of Captain Joshua Gladwyn Jebb, 54th Regiment of Foot, and the Hon Alice Caroline (nee Dundas) Jebb of Barnby Moor House. He was christened at St Peter's Church, Cranley Gardens in London on the 4th of July 1877. He was educated at Hazelwood School and at Charterhouse School where he was in Hodgsonites from September 1890 to December 1894. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Bedfordshire Regiment on the 5th of September 1896 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 22nd of January 1898. On the outbreak of the South African War he was serving with the 2nd Battalion of his regiment and embarked with them for South Africa on board the SS Sumatra on the 16th of December 1899 and disembarked at Port Elizabeth on the 13th of January 1900. He served with the 6th Mounted Infantry during operations in the Orange Free State from February to May 1900 including the action at Colesberg on the 12th of February 1900. He was on Police duty under the Military Governor of Pretoria from the15th of June to the 4th of September 1900. He returned to his battalion on the 9th of September and was appointed as Battalion Signalling Officer on the 11th of September 1900. Shortly afterwards he and Captain G.F.C. Saunders improvised a signalling system using Helios made with looking glasses by day and lamps at night. During the war he served in the Transvaal, in operations in the Orange River Colony and in operations in the Cape Colony. On the 18th of September 1901 Gladwyn Jebb was part of a small party which attacked a Boer laager at Vlakfontein. They had been told that the Boer force numbered just fifty and these were driven off but a larger force returned and Jebb and his men found themselves badly outnumbered. After having fought for four hours the party surrendered having lost three dead and three wounded. They were released shortly afterwards as the Boers did not have the facilities to hold prisoners so late in the war. It was the second time he had been captured during the war, having been captured at Pretoria earlier. On the 13th and 15th of November 1901 he and 2nd Lieutenant Hall led two raids which captured six and nineteen Boer commandos respectively. In April 1902 he was based at Brandfort as part of the Headquarters Company, Mounted Infantry. He was mentioned in despatches on two occasions which appeared in the London Gazette of the 10th of September 1901 and of the 29th of July 1902. He was promoted to Captain on the 11th of January 1902. The battalion embarked for home on board the SS Ionian on the 13th of March 1903 and arrived at Southampton on the 17th of April. He was awarded the Queen's Medal with three clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order which was announced in the London Gazette of the 31st of October 1902 and the citation read: - " Gladwyn Dundas Jebb, Captain, Bedfordshire Regiment. In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa". On his return to England he attended the Staff College, serving on the General Staff from May 1908 to May 1912 and in a number of other staff appointments from January 1913 until the outbreak of war. He was promoted to Major in 1913. He was married at St Mark's Church, South Farnborough to Norah May (nee Lomax) on the 2nd of January 1912 and they had two sons, David Gladwyn, born on the 18th of December 1912 and Michael, born on the 18th of June 1918. Following the outbreak of war he was appointed as Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General at the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force on the 5th of August 1914 and embarked for France on the 10th of August, serving in that capacity until the 17th of September 1914. He was promoted to temporary Lieutenant Colonel on the 20th of August 1914. He was appointed as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General to the 1st Cavalry Division on the 18th of September 1914 until the 6th of April 1915. He was appointed as Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General to 2nd Division from the 7th of February 1915 until the 13th of July 1915. He served as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General the 10th Army Corps from the 31st of December 1915 until the 1st of December 1916 and was promoted to temporary Brigadier General on the 31st of December 1915 while so employed. He was awarded the Order of St Michael and St George in the King's Birthday Honours List of the 3rd of June 1916. He was appointed as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General of 15th Army Corps from the 2nd of December 1916 to the 15th of March 1917. He served as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General to the Northern Army, Home Force from the 19th of June 1917 to the 4th of March 1918 and was promoted to temporary Brigadier General on the 24th of July 1917 while so employed. He was appointed as Brigadier in Charge of Administration for Western Command from the 5th of March 1918. He was mentioned in despatches on five occasions, two of which were in Sir John French's despatches of the 14th of January 1915 and of the 31st of May 1915. Also in Sir Douglas Haig's despatches of the 13th of November 1916. He was created as CMG in June 1916 and as CBE in December 1919. He relinquished the rank of temporary Brigadier General on the 17th of February 1920 and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on the same date. He was awarded the Ordre de Leopold (Chevalier) by the King of Belgium on the 7th of February 1921. He served as Deputy Director of Recruiting and Organisation at the War Office from the 1st of April 1925 and was promoted to temporary Colonel on the Staff on the same day. He left the War Office on the 3rd of December 1927 when he relinquished the temporary rank of Colonel. He was Commanding Officer of the 126th (East Lancashire and Border) Infantry Brigade on the 5th of January 1928 and served with them until 1930. He was appointed as Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office on the 3rd of December 1928 and was promoted to Colonel on the same date with seniority from the 3rd of June 1919. He was awarded CB in the King's Birthday Honours List of the 3rd of June 1930. He relinquished command of 126th Brigade on the 1st of November 1930 and retired from the army to the Reserve of Officers on the same day with the Honorary rank of Brigadier General. He retired from the Reserve of Officers due to his age on the 27th of March 1937. His son, Flying Officer Michael Jebb 504 Squadron Royal Air Force, died of wounds on the 19th of September 1940. He was living at "Brooklands", Crocketford in Dumfries when he died.

Went on to Charterhouse School