Personal Life
Gibson met the actress and show dancer Eve Moore at a party in Coventry during early December 1939 while he was on three days rest leave at his brother’s house. The following year Guy and Eve were married at All Saints Church in Eve's home town of Penarth near Cardiff in Wales. Guy Gibson was based at RAF Digby at the time and for the wedding flew his Blenheim bomber from RAF Wellingore satellite field in Lincolnshire to RAF Pengam Moors in Cardiff docks.
Eve's parents, Mr and Mrs Ernest Moore, lived in Archer Road, Penarth, and the couple moved in with them while they considered buying a home of their own. Ernest Moore was a keen golfer and invited his new son-in-law to join the Glamorganshire Golf Club as an honorary member.
Gibson spent his post-raid leave in Penarth, playing golf most days. While on leave he had a call from the Air Ministry telling him that he had been awarded the VC. His father-in-law Ernest Moore immediately telephoned the steward at the Glamorganshire and asked to him lay on as many drinks as he could find and the whole family went down to celebrate in style at the clubhouse.
Gibson continued to live unaccompanied in the officers' messes at his various stations and Eve remained at home with her parents, or lodged in local hotels.
The 2010 BBC programme Dambusters Declassified included an interview with a lady describing her relationship with Gibson whilst he was flying in WWII.
Gibson and Eve found a family home in London during 1943, but they only managed a few weekends together while on leave in Penarth or at various hotels, before his death.
Eve Gibson died on 3 November 1988, on the same day as Sir Harold "Micky" Martin, also a pilot on the Dambusters Raid.
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