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Frederick P. Gibbon

Known today for adventure stories and military history, this early 20th-century writer moved between fiction and nonfiction with ease. His books range from tales of the Indian Mutiny to a detailed World War I divisional history, showing a strong interest in empire, soldiers, and public service.

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The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny

The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny

by Frederick P. Gibbon

About the author

Frederick P. Gibbon was a British author whose surviving published work places him in the early 1900s. Catalog and public-domain records connect his name with books including The Disputed V.C. (1904), The Lawrences of the Punjab (1908), and The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, 1914-1918 (1920).

His writing covered both fiction and nonfiction. On one side were imperial adventure stories such as The Disputed V.C.; on the other were historical and biographical works, including The Lawrences of the Punjab, as well as military history focused on the First World War. That mix suggests a writer especially drawn to military life, colonial history, and heroic narrative.

Reliable biographical detail about his personal life is hard to confirm from the sources found here, so it is safest to let the books speak for him. Readers coming to Gibbon now will mostly meet him as a brisk, period writer whose work reflects the attitudes, interests, and storytelling habits of his era.