Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs(1 May 1877 10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books, who served as one of five officialBritishreporters during theFirst World War. He was officially accredited as awar correspondent in 1915, and his work appeared mainly in theDaily TelegraphandDaily Chronicle. Gibbs's wartime output was prodigious. He produced a stream of newspaper articles and a series of books: The Soul of the War(1915), The Battle of the Somme(1917), From Bapaume to Passchendaele(1918) andThe Realities of War(1920).