After officer training at Catterick and commissioning into the Royal Signals, he served with Mountbatten's headquarters in India and Ceylon from 1944 during the Burma Campaign.
Late in the campaign, Gibson was posted to Akyab Island and then to Rangoon immediately after the Japanese had evacuated from there.
[2] Since then he has served as an aerospace consultant to the ESA and the EU Commission, and has worked on the setting up of the European Environment Agency.
In 1977, Gibson received the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria.
[4] He was awarded the British Empire Medal[5] in the King's 2025 honours list for his services to space.