[3] He was born in Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire on 24 November 1915, the son of Thomas Gibson and his wife, Mary Munn.
After the war he served as Commanding Officer of the Maxillofacial Unit in India until 1947, specialising in major facial reconstruction from wounds and burns.
From 1970 he was Director of the West of Scotland Plastic and Oral Surgery Service (based first at Glasgow Royal Infirmary then at Ballochmyle and Canniesburn), at the same time becoming Professor of Plastic Surgery and Bioengineering at Strathclyde University.
[4] He retired in 1980, and as a late honour in life he was awarded the Lister Medal in 1987 for services to facial reconstruction.
He edited the British Journal of Plastic Surgery 1969-1970 In 1944 he married Patricia Muriel McFeat.