Harrison, Francis lnglehy, son of the Rev. JohnJames Harrison, R. N., of Highgate, Chaplain and Naval Instructor, by Louisa Edith, daughter of the Rev. Frederick William Darwall, Vicar of Sholden, Kent; b. April 27, 1883; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 30, 1897; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1902; matric. Michaelmas 1902; left the Univ. in 1904 to read for the Civil Service; went to Ceylon, where he was engaged as a tea planter, and subsequently to the Malay States, where he managed a rubber property; returned to England in 1915 and joined the O. T. C.; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Reserve) the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regt. Nov. 3, 1915; Lieut. 1917; went out to the western front in Aug. 1916; was transferred to Italy in Dec. 1917, but returned to France in April 1918; d. at Aire May 8, 1918, of wounds received the same day in the front line trenches there; unm.
Hare, John Edward, son of Lieut.-Col. John Hare OBE RAMC FRCS, ENT specialist, and Kathleen Dora, d. of Edward Rowe of Cape Town; b. 30 Dec. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1938; Univ. of London; MN radio officer in WW2; d. 1942 of exposure after his ship was torpedoed.
John Edward Hare was born at Simonstown, South Africa on the 30th of December 1919 the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel John Hare OBE FRCS, Royal Army Medical Corps, and Kathleen Dora (nee Rowe) Hare of 22, Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea in London, later of “Ormidale”, Clevedon in Somerset. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from September 1933 to July 1938. He was a noted pianist while he was at school. He went on to the University of London.
In March 1941, the 3,767 ton cargo steamer SS Umona, under the command of Master Frederick Arthur Baden Peckham, set sail from Durban bound for London carrying a cargo of 1,549 tons of maize, 50 tons of pulses and 47 tons of jam. She was also carrying 14 passengers, of which 7 were sailors who had survived pervious sinkings. She called at Walvis Bay on the 20th of March before setting sail alone for Freetown in Sierra Leone where she was to join a convoy.
At 11.01pm on the 30th of March 1941, the SS Umona was sailing some 90 nautical miles to the southwest of Freetown when she was struck underneath the aft mast on the port side by a G7e “Gnat” torpedo which had been fired by the U Boat U-124, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Georg-Wilhelm Schultz. She was hit by a second torpedo two minutes later and sank six minutes after that. During that time John Hare, the radio officer on duty at the time, stayed at his post transmitting distress messages before jumping into the sea. Only one lifeboat of the six on board, had managed to launch before she sank. The lifeboat was commanded by Fourth Officer Edwin Clarke who was captured when U-124 surfaced and took him on board before submerging again. He was never seen again. John Hare managed to pull himself on board a small life raft which was also carrying a badly wounded naval gunner, E.G. Elliot RN and a passenger, Frank Brothers. After drifting for four days they spotted a U Boat on the surface which they managed to signal to by using the reflection of a tobacco tin. The submarine came alongside and gave them fresh water before sailing away. The next day the weather worsened and John Hare died from exposure during the afternoon. The two remaining men were picked up by the cargo ship SS Lorca on the 12th of April and were landed at Freetown. Three other survivors had been picked up by the destroyer HMS Foxhound (H69) on the 7th of April but the other 101 passengers and crew had perished when the ship had gone down.
His date of death is given as the date of the sinking of the ship but a number of other sources record that he died on board the life raft a few days later.
He was posthumously awarded the King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct, which was announced by St James’s Palace on the 28th of April 1942.
He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, Panel 113.
HANMER, LAMBERT ALFRED GRAHAM, elder son of Rear-Adm. John Graham Job Hanmer, Royal Navy, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and Mary Caroline, dau. of Rev. John Cobbold Aldrich, Incumbent of St. Lawrence, Ipswich; b. 21 Oct 1868; adm. 4 Apr 1882 (G); left Dec 1885; RMA Sandhurst Dec 1887; 2nd Lieut., West Riding Regt., 23 Mar 1889; Lieut., Indian Staff Corps 29 Oct 1890; Squadron Officer and Adjutant, 1st Punjab Cavalry 29 Oct 1894; Capt., 23 Mar 1900; ADC to Lieut. -Gov., Punjab 5 Jan 1900 – 16 Oct 1901; Squadron-Commander, 21st Prince Albert Victor’s Own Cavalry 6 Apr 1905; Maj., 23 Mar 1907; Lieut. -Col., 23 Mar 1915; DSO 7 Feb 1918; served in Waziristan expedition 1894-5, on North-West Frontier 1897-8 and in First World War; m. 17 Dec 1901 Ethel Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Col. Thomas Heaton Lovett, Belmont, Shropshire; d. 29 Apr 1918, of wounds received in action.
HAMMANS, ARTHUR WILLIAM; b. (Marcham, Berks. ) 31 Aug 1846; adm. 28 Sep 1860 (James'); left Aug 1864; Ensign, 32nd Foot 18 Dec 1866; Lieut., 25 Sep 1869; Capt., 32nd (Duke of Cornwall’s) Light Infantry 29 Jun 1881; Maj., 14 Dec 1887; retd. 31 Aug 1894; served Burma 1892-3; re-employed as Recruiting Officer, Bletchley District, in First World War; m. 23 Oct 1889 Mary Josephine, eldest dau. of John Wagner, Stormont, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia; d. 13 Jun 1916, from effects of overwork as Recruiting Officer. [evidently kin to Robert Hammans, Marcham, Berks., maltster, will proved PCC 23 Apr 1856]
Hamilton-Johnston, Douglas Charles, eldest son of Augustus Hamilton:Johnston, of Chelsea, by Bessie, daughter of Major-Gen. Patrick Robertson-Ross, C. B., of Glenmoidart, Inverness-shire; b. May 20, 1889; adm. from Charterhouse Sept. 22, 1904 (G); left July 1906; matric. at London Univ. and afterwards went to Frankfurt; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1908; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. the Black Watch (the Royal Highlanders) Feb. 24, 1909; Lieut. Feb. 14, 1912; Capt. Feb. 25, 1915; temp. Major Jan. 7, 1916; arrived with his batt. from India at the western front in Oct. 1914; wounded in Dec. 1914, and again in May 1915; was invalided home after the second casualty; returned to the western front in Nov. following, and at the end of the month went with his batt. to Mesopotamia; mentioned in despatches L. G. Dec. 1, 1916; killed in action at El Shaad, Mesopotamia, while leading his batt. against the Turks Jan. 21, 1916; unm.
Halse-Hearne, William Edward, son of William Frederick Halse-Hearne, RN stores officer, and Esther, d. of James Alexander Crofton; b. 22 July 1917; adm. Apr. 1931 (A), (B) Jan. 1933; left Dec. 1933; Drummond's Bank; 2nd Lieut. Wilts Regt 1943, transf. Commandos (Capt.); m. 18 June 1940 Margaret Horner; d. of wounds (Burma) Nov. 1944.
William Edward Halse-Hearne was born in North London on the 22nd of July 1917 the only son of William Frederick Halse-Hearne RN, a naval stores officer, and Esther (nee Crofton) Halse-Hearne of 17, King’s Road, Wimbledon in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from April 1931 and up Busby’s from January 1933 to December 1933.
He joined the staff of Drummonds Bank in London in 1934 where he worked as a clerk. He enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1938 where he served with B Battery and he was mobilised for war service in September 1939.
He was married in Surrey on the 18th of June 1940 to Margaret Gertrude (nee Horner).
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment on the 4th of June 1943 and was later attached to No. 1 Commando where he was appointed to the command of No. 4 Troop.
In November 1944, No 1 Commando was based at Teknaf in the Maungdaw Hills of Burma from where they were carrying out patrols against Japanese troops in the area. On the 11th of November 1944, No. 4 Troop, No. 1 Commando was briefed for a patrol to investigate a report of the presence of Japanese troops in the area of the village of Ywathitke. The patrol was to consist of eighteen other ranks, commanded by William Halse-Hearne, accompanied by Lieutenant Paterson and by an Intelligence Officer. It was to take a route on the outward journey of Nurutlapara –Chiradan West - Ywathitke to Thavengonbaung and return by the same route. The patrol set out at midday and was due to return at 6pm.
They advanced down the main road to a river crossing where they received updated information that enemy troops were in Thavengonbaung and in a another village to the north of it. On receiving this information they split into two groups, one under Lieutenant Paterson and the other under William Halse-Hearne, with one advancing towards through the villages towards Thavengonbaung and the other continuing down the main track where the two groups were to rendezvous. Both groups reached the rendezvous point without incident where they were informed by a native boy that the Japanese were in the village where they were commandeering millet from the locals. They continued their advance towards the village in open order with C Section, under Lieutenant Paterson, on the left and with D Section, under William Halse-Hearne, on the right. They reached the south end of the village where they found the approach to it was across 100 yards of scrub with a further 100 yards of forward slope and then 800 yards of open paddy fields beyond. Having covered the 200 yards to the village they came under fire from an enemy light machine gun and from rifle fire from their right and from snipers on their left. The two sections took cover but William Halse-Hearne had been wounded and was lying on the open ground. He was brought in by his men under heavy fire who were then forced to fall back when they were brought under 2 inch mortar fire. C Section also withdrew having kileld three enemy snipers. William Halse-Hearne was carried to Thavengonbaung and then taken on an improvised stretcher to Chiradan West. He died from his wounds during the journey when the party was approximately a mile from Thavengonbaung.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at the Royal Bank of Scotland branch at 36, Andrew Square, Edinburgh
He is buried at Taukkyan War Cemetery Plot 3, Row G, Grave 4.
Halsall, David Richard, son of Leslie Albiston Halsall, East India merchant, of Bombay, and Gwynedd May, d. of William Llewellyn Preece; b. 30 Oct. 1920; adm. Sept. 1934 (KS); left Dec. 1938; RMA Woolwich; RE 1940-2 (Lieut.); killed in a bomb disposal accident (Middle East) Sept. 1942.
David Richard Halsall was born at Bombay, India on the 30th of October 1920 the only child of Leslie Albiston Halsall, an East India merchant, and Gwynedd May (nee Preece) Halsall of Bombay, later of “Gwyn”, Rances Lane, Wokingham in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School, where he was admitted as a King’s Scholar, from September 1934 to December 1938. He was a member of the Photographic Society and won its First Prize in 1938.
He left school early when he accepted a place at the Royal Military College, Woolwich from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on the 18th of February 1940. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 18th of August 1941. He worked in bomb disposal in the UK but by January 1942 he had been posted to the 4th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers in the Middle East.
He was killed in a bomb disposal accident in Egypt.
He is buried at El Alamein War Cemetery Plot XXVII, Row G, Grave 6.
Hallward, Basil Murray, only son of William Lambard Hallward, of Kensington, by Grace, daughter of William Murray, of Dereham, Norfolk; b. Nov. 17, 1891; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (H); left Easter 1911; was engaged in the study of music at the outbreak of Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 10th (Service) Batt. Royal Warwickshire Regt. Sept. 14, 1914; Lieut. Feb. 12, 1915, R. F. A. Sept. 9, 1915; went out to the western front in Dec. 1915; killed in action near Arras April 10, 1918.
Hadden, Eustace Walter Russell, brother of Archibald Robert Hadden (q.v.); b. Jan. 20, 1891; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (A); left July 1908; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1908; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Nov. 18, 1912; held a legal appointment under the Siamese Government 1913-4; returned to England in June 1914; 2nd Lieut. 4th (Terr.) Batt. Oxford and Bucks L. I. Sept. 1911; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1912; Capt. Sept. 2, 1914; went out to the western front in March 1915; temp. Major April 15, 1916; was in temporary command of his Batt. during the last six weeks of his life; d. June 11, 1916, at Abbeville; unm.
Hadden, Archibald Robert, elder son of the Rev. Robert Henry Hadden, Vicar of St. Mark, North Audley Street, London, Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Hon. Chaplain to Edward VII, by Eva Prudence, second daughter of John Carbery Evans, of Hatley Park, Cambs; b. Oct. 22, 1889; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left July 1907; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matric. Michaelmas 1907; 2nd Lieut. 9th Batt. London Regt. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 1909; Lieut. March 27, 1911; Capt. Sept. 23, 1914; served on the staff of the 3rd London Infantry Brigade under Gen. Monck Aug. 1914 - Jan. 1917; went out lo the western front in Jan. 1917, where he joined his regiment; m. May 6, 1915, Evelyn Forster, only daughter of Edwin Thomas Morse Tunnicliffe, M.R.C.S., of North Finchley, Middlesex; killed in action at Hangard Wood. April 25, 1918.