Philip Gibbs Quotes


All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.


Citations

Gibbs, Philip. Adventures in Journalism. Harper & Brothers, 1923.

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Philip Gibbs
Philip Gibbs
  • Born: May 1, 1877
  • Died: March 10, 1962
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Journalist, Novelist, Memoirist

Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs KBE was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Four of his siblings were also writers, A. Hamilton Gibbs, Francis Hamilton Gibbs, Helen Hamilton Gibbs, and Cosmo Hamilton, as was his father Henry James Gibbs, and his own son, Anthony.