HIGGINS-BERNARD, FRANCIS TYRINGHAM, eldest son of Joseph Napier Higgins QC, barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Sophia Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Tyringham Bernard, Bart. (qv); b. 22 Jul 1864; adm. 24 Jan 1878 (R); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1883, matr. 12 Oct 1883; played Association Football v. Cambridge 1887; BA 1887; MA 1890; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 May 1886, called to bar 3 Jul 1889; assumed additional surname of Bernard 26 Mar 1897; of Nether Winchendon House, Bucks.; winner, Bar Point to Point 1900, 1906, and Officers’ Sabre Competition, Military Tournament 1904; Master, Skinners’ Co. 1903-4, 1928-9; contested (Cons) St. Austell Jan 1910, North Buckinghamshire Dec 1910; Lieut. -Col., 3rd batt. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 15 May 1917; served on Western Front May 1917 – Mar 1919, wounded Jun 1917; DL JP Buckinghamshire, High Sheriff 1924; m. 27 Apr 1897 Evelyn Georgiana, eldest dau. of Philip James Digby Wykeham DL JP, Tythrop House, Oxfordshire; d. 16 Jul 1935.
HICKMAN, HENRY RICHARD BELCHER, son of William Hickman MB MRCS, Harley Street, London, and Emmeline, dau. of Thomas Lea; b. 11 Apr 1866; adm. 12 Jun 1879 (R); left Dec 1883; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. Mich. 1884; BA 1888; MA MB BCh 1894; St. George’s Hospital; MRCS LRCP 1894; an ophthalmic surgeon; Lecturer in Physiology, Bristol Univ., 1919; m. 16 Jul 1895 Margaret Kate, dau. of James Hetherington Thompson, Brampton, near Carlisle, Cumberland; d. 1948.
HEWITT, WILLIAM GRAILY, son of William Morse Graily Hewitt MD FRCP, Berkeley Square, London, consultant obstetric physician, and Elizabeth Bolton, dau. of William Hollis, Brunswick Place, Northampton; b. 20 Jul 1864; adm. from Wellington Coll 22 Jan 1880 (R); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1883, adm. pens. 4 Oct 1883, matr. Mich. 1883; BA and LLB 1886; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 May 1884, called to bar 28 Jan 1889; equity draftsman and conveyancer; adopted craft of handwriting and illuminating, teaching subject at LCC School of Arts and Crafts from 1902; member, Art Workers Guild 1903; m. 28 Jul 1908 Lilian Maud, dau. of Robert Davie Peebles, The Park, Royston, Herts.; d. 22 Dec 1952.
Herbert, Christopher Reginald Courtenay, son of Arthur Stewart Herbert of Cahirane, Co. Kerry, and Lady Theresa Selina, d. of Col. Gerald Edmund Boyle and sister of Admiral of the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork & Orrery GCB GCVO; b. 23 Mar. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (R); left Dec. 1923; a stockbroker; m. 4 Sept. 1939 Celia Winifred, d. of Christopher Foulis Roundell CBE; PO RAFVR Nov. 1940, killed in action June 1941.
Christopher Reginald Courtenay Herbert was born at Montreux, Switzerland on the 23rd of March 1906 the younger son of Arthur Stewart Herbert, a director of the North London Railway, and Lady Theresa Selina (nee Boyle) Herbert of 6, Grosvenor Hill, Willow Lane, Wimbledon in South London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1920 to December 1923. On leaving school he worked as a solicitor in the City of London and later became a Partner. He achieved a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 16073) at the Airwork School of Flying, Heston on the 27th of July 1938 while flying an Avro Club Cadet aircraft. He was married at Paddington, London on the 4th of September 1939 to Celia Winifred (nee Roundel) and they lived at 8, Pelham Place, Kensington.
He enlisted as an Aircraftman 2nd Class in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve at the Uxbridge Depot where he trained as a pilot and was commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 30th of November 1940, with seniority from the 10th of November 1940.
On the night of the 26th/27th of June 1941, Bomber Command dispatched 30 Hampdens and 14 Wellingtons for an operation on Dusseldorf. The results of the bombing were not able to be observed.
Christopher Herbert and his crew took off from RAF Newton at 11.05pm on the 26th of June 1941 in Wellington Mk IC R1644 JN-L for the operation. The aircraft was hit by anti aircraft fire and crashed on farmland on the west bank of the River Maas near Grubbenvorst, 14 miles due north of Venlo, at 4am with the loss of the entire crew.
The crew was: -
Pilot Officer John Winston Sievers RNZAF DFC (Pilot)
Pilot Officer Christopher Reginald Courenay Herbert (2nd Pilot)
Pilot Officer Alan George St John Ross (Observer)
Sergeant Hector George Burgess (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant William John Grieve (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Francis Joseph Hart RCAF (Air Gunner)
Theirs was the only aircraft lost during the operation.
His wife received the following telegram dated the 19th of July 1941: - “Further information received through the International Red Cross states that your husband Pilot Officer Reginald Courtney Herbert previously reported missing is now reported missing but believed to have lost his life as the result of air operations. Any further information received will be immediately communicated to you. Letter confirming this telegram follows.”
Four of the crew’s bodies were found in the wreckage of the aircraft with two more being found a few hundred yards away. One of these had tried to bail out as his parachute was found near his body and was open.
The crew was buried at Ehrenfriedhof Cemetery, Venlo but their bodies were later exhumed by No. 5 Royal Air Force Missing Research and Enquiry Unit and were moved to their present location.
He is commemorated on a plaque in the Protestant Church at Killarney, Co. Kerry and on a memorial window at the King Henry VII Chapel, which was unveiled on the 10th of July 1947. .
He is buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 3, Row H, Grave 3.
Hepburn, Rodger Bawtree, son of George Hepburn, leather merchant, of Sutton, Surrey, and Ethel, d. of James Bawtree of Sutton; b. 15 Mar. 1905; adm. Jan. 1920 (R); left Apr. 1922; a leather merchant; m. 11 Sept. 1930 Joan Winifred, d. of Edgar Christian Robson of Sutton; d. 5 Nov. 1971.
Hepburn, Jonathan King, son of James Smith Hepburn, of Croydon, solicitor, by Ellen, daughter of William Peter Jolliffe, of Bloomsbury; b. Aug. 10, 1885; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (R); left July 1904; Queen's Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1904; B.A. 1907; passed into the Forest Service of India 1906, but exchanged into that of the Sudan, where he went out as a Deputy Inspector 1908, after spending a year in Germany; Inspector 1912; d. at Wau, on the Blue Nile, June 6, 1912; unm.
Hepburn, George, brother of Jonathan King Hepburn (q.v.); b. March 3, 1888; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (R); left July 1905; readm. Jan. 1906; left July 1906; passed into the Technical Coll., South Kensington, 1906; took B.Sc., and won a nomination to the R.E. at Chatham for one year 1909; obtained an appointment at Rosyth 1910; entered the Indian Public Works Dept. as asst. engineer 1911; returned to England May 1916; 2nd Lieut. R.E. July 1916; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1918; went out to the western front Feb. 1917, and served with the 98th Field Co.; killed in action at Driencourt, near Peronne, France, March 22, 1918; umm.
Henry, Stephen Laurence, son of Laurence Samuel Henry MB BS FRCS (ed), surgeon, of Apsley Heath, Bucks, and Doreen Denness, d. of Rev. Reginald Denness Cooper, Congregational minister, of Rayleigh, Essex; b. 26 Sept. 1935; adm. Sept. 1948 (R); left July 1954; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1954, BA 1958, MA 1961; Westminster Hosp. Med. Sch., BM BCh MRCS LRCP 1961; house appts. 1962; DObstRCOG 1964, MRCGP 1973; gen. med. practitioner, Trowbridge, Wilts 1962-95; m. 1 Apr. 1964 Jane Denize, d. of James Munro Gibson, jeweller and goldsmith, of Newbury, Berks; d. 1 Nov. 2009.
Henry, Kenneth Spooner Jason, son of H. Jason Henry of Chalfont St Giles, Bucks; b. 11 Aug. 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (R); left Apr. 1923; RAF Regt in WW2 (FO).
Henderson-Roe, Peter Gordon, son of Maj. Jack Brewster Henderson-Roe RASC, of Cook Island, NZ, and Marjorie Blyth, d. of William Marshall Robertson Rhodes of Rio de Janeiro; b. 15 June 1918; adm. May 1932 (R); left Dec. 1934; Petty Officer RN in WW2.