Richard Horace Maconochie Gibbs MC (4 February 1893 – 19 July 1915), a medical student and an Australian rules footballer, played with the Melbourne University Football Club in the Victorian Football League.\n', '

When the University team withdrew from the VFL competition in 1915, he was transferred to the Melbourne Football Club, but never played a game due to his enlistment in the First AIF. He was killed in action, in France, on 19 July 1916.\n', '

The son of physician and surgeon Richard Horace Gibbs (1863-1919), L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.Ed, L.F.P.S.G., and Helen Gibbs (1868-1959), née Maconochie, Richard Horace Maconochie Gibbs was born at Warracknabeal, Victoria on 4 February 1893. He was a cousin of Lieutenant Walter Horace Carlyle "Lyle" Buntine (1895-1917), MC.\n', '

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