Gideon was born on 7 Aug 1916 to Joseph and Jeanne Barsky. There are no further records of his family but he is found in the 1939 Register living in Hendon and working as a mechanical engineer.

Records show that he enlisted at Euston after August 1940.

On the 23 August 1943, Gideon was killed when aircraft Oxford AB771 crashed near to Weston-super-Mare.