The son of James & Rebecca Hibbs, of 32 Rouge Bouillon, St Helier. One of fourteen children, his mother died when he was just 14-years-old. Educated at Victoria College, Jersey, he won the King's History Prize in 1911 and two years later obtained a scholarship to take Modern History at Exeter College, Oxford.

When war broke out in August 1914, he applied for and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Town Battalion of the Jersey Militia and later volunteered to join the Jersey Company when it formed in December that year. After training in Ireland and Aldershot, he was attached to the Machine Gun Section of 7th Royal Irish Rifles, taking command of that unit in February 1916.

In March 1916, while resting and training in the village of Lapugnoy with the Jersey Company, he died at the 18th Casualty Clearing Station after a short illness, possibly blood poisoning.