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GB-2014-WSA-08716 · Person · 1898-1920

Harmsworth, Robert Lovel St. John, brother of Sir Alfred Leicester St. Barbe Harmsworth (q.v.); b. Nov. 29, 1898; adm. Jan. 16, 1913 (R); left Easter 1915; d. Sept. 15, 1920.

GB-2014-WSA-08715 · Person · 1897-1952

Harmsworth, Sir Harold Cecil Aubrey, brother of Alfred Leicester St. Barbe Harmsworth (q.v.); b. June 13, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (R); left July 1914; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1915; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A.; transferred to R.M.A.; temp. Lieut. April 20, 1918, and served at Mudros, Dardanelles, S. Russia, and Bosphorus in Great War I; a director of The Daily Sketch and Sunday Herald, Ltd., and of the Western Morning News Co. Ltd., etc.; knighted 1935; d. Sept. 7, 1952.

GB-2014-WSA-08713 · Person · 1892-1962

Harmsworth, Sir Alfred Leicester St. Barbe, Bart., eldest son of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, Bart., M. P., of Hyde Park, by Annie Louisa, eldest daughter of Thomas Scott, of Clapham, Surrey; b. Nov. 26, 1892; adm. Jan. 18, 1906 (R); left J uly 1910; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1910; B.A. 1913; adm. to the Middle Temple Oct. 31, 1912; served in Great War I; Rifleman Queen Victoria's Rifles Sept. 2, 1914; temp. 2nd Lieut. 16th Batt. the Gloucs Regt. Jan. 18, 1915; severely wounded at Thiepval Aug. 16, 1916; Lieut. July 1, 1917; Asst. Embarkation Staff Officer with rank of Capt. Sept. 12, 1918; gazetted out of the service owing to ill health caused by wounds Feb. 8, 1919; succeeded his father as 2nd Bart., Jan. 19, 1937; m. July 2, 1936, Margaret Florence Ivy Hall; d. 1962.

GB-2014-WSA-08701 · Person · 1870-?

Harley, Robert d'Arcy Conington, son of Col. Sir Robert William Harley, K.C.M.G., C. B., by Annie, daughter of Henry Francis Conington, of Ranby Hall, Lincs; b. Jan. 4, 1870; adm. Sept. 25, 1884 (R); left April 1887.

GB-2014-WSA-08698 · Person · 1888-1960

Harley, John Ralph Henry, second son of Robert William Daker Harley (q.v.); b. Oct. 5, 1888; adm. April 21, 1904 (R); left July 1907; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Highland Light Infantry Oct. 16, 1914; Lieut. Dec. 12, 1915; Capt. Jan. 1, 1917; served in France, Mesopotamia, and Persia; mentioned in despatches L. G. March 12, 1918; a member of the Herefordshire County Council 1923; High Sheriff 1928; Master of the Teme Valley Foxhounds 1933-45; D. L. Herefordshire 1915; served in Great War II as Major, Royal Welch Fusiliers; m. Dec. 4, 1915, Rachel Mary, daughter of Charles James Paul Gwyer, of Eywood Tidey, co. Hereford; d. Jan. 18, 1960.

Hansen, Eric Norman, 1904-?
GB-2014-WSA-08615 · Person · 1904-?

Hansen, Eric Norman, brother of Albert Edward Hansen (q.v.); b. Sept. 20, 1904; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (R); left March 1923; a provision importer; served in Great War II as Lieut. R.E.; m. Dec. 7, 1933, Audrey, youngest daughter of Edmund Ivens, of Worthing, Sussex.

GB-2014-WSA-08522 · Person · 1902-1989

Ham, Francis Dillon, son of Arthur E. Ham of Bristol; b. 24 Oct. 1902; adm. Sept. 1917 (R); left July 1921; d. 1 Mar. 1989.

GB-2014-WSA-08512 · Person · 1925-2013

Hall-Patch, Anthony, son of Joseph Sebastian Philip Hall-Patch, chartered sec., of High Wycombe, and Kathleen Jenny, d. of Thomas Christopher John Williams of Bourne End, Lincs; b. 21 Nov. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (R); left July 1943; Univ. of Birmingham, BSc 1954; MIMechE AMIMarE; prod. dir. Brit. Polar Engines Ltd., Glasgow, 1962-7; man. Dorman Diesels Ltd., Stafford, 1967-72, man. dir. Iran 1972-6; chief exec. Nobal Trade, Iran, 1978; sen. curator Rail Transport Science Museum; retd.; d. 6 July 2013.

GB-2014-WSA-08495 · Person · 1887-1969

Hallett, Denys Bouhier Imbert, brother of Hugh Imbert Periam Hallett (q.v.); b. Oct. 8, 1887; adm. from King's Coll. School May 6, 1897 (R); left July 1906; Univ. Coll. Oxon., matric. Lent 1907; B.A. 1910; M.A., B. M., and B. Ch. 1913; St. Thomas's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1912; served as temp. Capt. and acting Major in R.A.M.C. 1915-9; practised at Lee, Kent, and afterwards at Richmond, Surrey; m. 1st Dec. 30, 1914, Amelia Olive Annie, second daughter of the Rev. James Strother Smith, of Boyle, Eire; 2nd April 4, 1953, Queenie Gladys, daughter of James Oliver Poulton, of Teddington, Middx.; d. 3 May 1969.

GB-2014-WSA-20886 · Person · 1923-D.D.

Hall, Vernon Walter, son of Vernon Manning Hall FRICS, of Hampstead, and Inez Maclaren; b. 27 June 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (R); left July 1939; RAFVR 1941-5 (Flt Lieut.); Camborne Sch. of Mines 1946-9, ACSM; CEng FIMM MAustrIMM; a mining engineer in Zambia 1949-71, Aus­tralia 1971-4, S. Africa 1975; retd to Australia as a consult. mining engineer 1976; m. 11 May 1946 Joyce, d. of Stanley Cantrill of Sheffield.