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Hawkin, Edward Louis Botha, son of Robert Crawford Hawkin, barrister-at-law, and Marie Mandina, d. of Louis Botha of Vrede, Orange Free State, SA; b. 15 Dec. 1908; adm. May 1922 (A), (B) Sept. 1925 as first Head of Busby's; left July 1926; asst master British Sch. Madrid; 2nd Lieut. RASC 1940, Capt. Feb. 1947, Maj. Oct. 1953; m. Maria del Pilar, d. of Capt. John Suther­land Harvey of Barcelona; d. 2 June 1975.

Hayward, John Edward James, son of Edward John Hayward CBE, solicitor, of Cardiff, Glamorgan, and Mary Fanny, d. of James Hawkyard of Chipping Norton, Oxon; b. 17 Nov. 1917; adm. Sept. 1931 (B); left July 1936; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1936, BA 1939; RA 1940-5 (Capt. ), served NW Europe; adm. solicitor Oct. 1948; partner Wilde Sapte, London, 1955-77, sen. partner 1977-83, consult. 1983-8; trustee Roy. Acad. Arts Trust 1981-7; m. 16 Sept. 1950 Ruth, d. of Edward C. Holden of Parkstone, Dorset; 14 Dec. 2011

Hayward, Simon Edward Pascoe, son of Sidney Pascoe Hayward MC KC, barrister, and Irene Dorothy, d. of Horace Otho Hall of Norwich; b. 19 Oct. 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (B); left July 1955; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1955; Open Univ., BA 1976; a systems consult.; d. 19 Sept. 1996.

Hebblethwaite, Edwin Charles Long, son of Bernard Robinson Hebblethwaite FRIBA, of King­ston Lyle, Berks, and Margaret Austin, d. of George Austin-Hyslop of Glasgow; b. 19 Sept. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (B); left Apr. 1934; a journalist; RAFVR 1941-2 (FO), killed in action in a bombing raid over Hamburg May 1942.

Edwin Charles Long “Peter” Hebblethwaite was born at Dublin, Ireland on the 19th of September 1915 the only child of Bernard Robinson Hebblethwaite FRIBA, an architect, and Margaret Austin (nee Hyslop) Hebblethwaite, of Gaston Manor, Tisbury near Salisbury in Wiltshire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1929 to April 1934. He was a member of the Colts Cricket XI in 1930 and 1931 and was a member of the 1st Cricket XI in 1932. He was a member of the Football XI in 1932, 1933 and 1934 where he played at outside left. The Elizabethan wrote the following on his 1932/33 season: - “A clever dribbler and good at the short passing game, but his left foot is not yet strong enough, and he is very weak with his head. Position play good, but often fails to make the most of an opening through hesitation.”
He was appointed as a member of the Monitorial Council in 1933.
On leaving school he became a journalist and a sub editor and worked in Grimsby.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as an observer and rose to the rank of Sergeant before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 9th of December 1941. He was promoted to Flying Officer in March 1942.
On the night of the 3rd/4th of May 1942, Bomber Command dispatched 43 Wellingtons, 20 Halifaxes, 13 Stirlings and 5 Hampdens for an operation on Hamburg. When the formation arrived at Hamburg it was found that the target was completely covered by cloud and only 54 of the aircraft bombed the target by estimating its position. 113 fires were started in the city of which 57 were classified as large. A large entertainment palace in the Reeperbahn was completely destroyed, as were a cinema and a theatre. A warehouse in the dockside area which contained vehicles and other goods was also destroyed. A 4,000lb bomb landed at a road junction in the historic residential area which caused 11 blocks of flats to collapse; another 11 buildings were severely damaged and 352 were slightly damaged. 77 people were killed on the ground with 243 injured and 1,624 people were bombed out of their homes.
Edwin Hebblethwaite and his crew took off from RAF Croft at 11.05pm on the 3rd of May 1942 in Halifax Mk II R9391 EY- for the operation. While in the target area the aircraft was coned by searchlights and was shot down by a night fighter flown by Feldwebel Hans Berschwinger of 4./NJG2 and crashed into the North Sea, some twenty kilometres to the north of Juist at 2.31am with the loss of the entire crew. This was Hans Berschwinger’s third victory of an eventual twelve before he was killed in action on the 15th of February 1944.
The crew was: -
Sergeant Thomas Percy Willoughby Davis (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Gilbert Murray Edwards (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Edwin Charles Long Hebblethwaite (Observer)
Pilot Officer John Robert “Jack” Kennedy RCAF (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Frederick Ross Mills (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Eric Charles Smith (2nd Pilot)
Squadron Leader Albert John Drake Snow (Pilot)
Theirs was one of five aircraft lost during the raid.
His father received the following telegram dated the 31st of August 1942: - “Deeply regret to advise you that following information from the International Red Cross Committee and Germans sources that your son Flying Officer Edwin Charles Long Hebblethwaite is reported to have lost his life as the result of air operations on 3rd May 1942. Letter confirming this telegram follows. The Air Council express their profound sympathy.”
Edwin Hebblethwaite’s body was washed ashore on the Island of Sylt on the 16th of June 1942 and was buried at Buesum Cemetery, Westerland on the 18th of June 1942. His body was exhumed by No. 4 Missing and Research Unit, Royal Air Force on the 9th of July 1947 and was moved to its present location. John Kennedy’s body was washed ashore on the 10th of June 1942 and Eric Smith’s body was recovered from the sea by a boat on the 9th of May 1942.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Tisbury.
He is buried at Kiel War Cemetery Plot 3, Row E, Grave 14.

Herbert, Piers Marinel, brother of Veryan Herbert (qv); b. 21 May 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (B); left July 1954; called to the Bar, Inner Temple Feb. 1960; part-time dep. Circuit Judge 1975; d. 9 Mar. 2006.

Herbert, Veryan, son of Aubrey Herbert (qv); b. 18 Nov. 1930; adm. Sept. 1945 (B); left July 1949; Old Vic Theatre Sch. 1950-1; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1951, BA 1955; co. man. Internat. Ballet 1952-3; a stage dir. 1955-8; dir. Yimkin Engineering 1954-9; management and design consult. 1958-68; man. dir. A. B. Saunders Assocs. 1960-95; man. dir. advertising and PR co. 1968-; retd.; m. 15 Mar. 1958 Angela Mary Palin, BBC studio man. and social worker, d. of Edward Moreton Palin, export man.; d. 15 Feb. 2014.

Herrmann, Frank Curt Alfons, son of Frederick Heinrich Joseph Herrmann, architect, of Hampstead, and Gabriele Emily Anniela, d. of Alfons Jaffé of Boar’s Hill, Oxford; b. 18 May 1927; adm. May 1940 (B); left July 1945; Magdalen Coll. Oxf., matric. 1945 but did not graduate; Faber & Faber, publishers, 1947; dir. Methuens 1959, assoc. Book Publishers 1964; man. dir. Marshall Morgan & Scott, chmn. Ward Lock & Hudsons Bookshops; FSA 1975; dir. Sotheby’s (overseas ops. ) 1980-2; founder and dir. Bloomsbury Book Auctions 1983-2005; author, The Giant Alexander 1964, and other children’s books, Sotheby’s: Portrait of an Auction House 1980, The English as Collectors: a documentary sourcebook 1972, and Low Profile: A Life in the World of Books (autobiog. ) 2002; ed., Travellers Tales 1999, and More Tales from the Travellers 2005; donated res. files to Wallace Collection 2014; m. 16 Oct. 1954 Patricia Herrmann OBE, d. of Philip Robinson of Hampstead; d. 23 Apr. 2017.

Herrmann, Luke John, brother of Frank Curt Alfons Herrmann (qv); b. 9 Mar. 1932; adm. Sept. 1945 (B); left Dec. 1950; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1959; asst. ed. Illustrated London News 1955-8; asst. Keeper of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, 1958-67; Paul Mellon lecturer in History of British Art, Univ. of Leicester, 1967-70, sen. lecturer in the History of Art 1970-3, Prof. 1973-87, Prof. Emeritus 1987; FSA 1975; author, Ruskin and Turner 1968, British Landscape Painting of the 18th Century 1973, Turner 1975, Paul and Thomas Sandby 1986; co-author, Catalogue of the Drawings by James Hakewill in the British Sch. at Rome Library 1992, and Nineteenth Century British Painting 2000; co-editor, Oxford Companion to Turner 2001; hon. editor, Walpole Society 1993-2003; m. 27 Feb. 1965 Georgina Herrmann OBE DPhil FBA FSA, Reader in Archaeology of Western Asia, UCL, d. of Maj. John Walker Thompson RA, of Basingstoke, Hants; d. 9 Sept. 2016.

Hiscox, Peter Hugh, brother of Wilfrid Guy Hiscox (qv); b. 26 June 1920; adm. May 1934 (B); left July 1938; RASC 1939-45 (Lieut.); The Queen's Regt (short service commission), Capt. Nov. 1947; d. Apr. 1995.

Holmes, Wilbur Thomas, son of Henry Alfred Holmes, Prof. of Romance Languages City Coll. of New York, and Lula Ella, d. of Samuel Thomas of Baltimore, USA; b. 27 Jan. 1917; adm. Sept. 1932 (B); left July 1933; Wesleyan Univ. Conn., USA, BA 1938; Columbia Univ. NY, MA 1939; USNR in WW2 (Lieut.); a schoolmaster in Louisiana; m. Aug. 1940 Lois Husted of Waterbury, Conn., USA; d. 3 Oct. 1985.