Ham, Kenneth Charles, son of William Herbert Ham, of Wellington, Somerset, solicitor; b. Aug. 22, 1901; adm. as K.S. Sept. 23, 1915; left July 1920.
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.
Halsted, Nicolas, son of Eric Jacob Halsted of Putney and Winifred Lena Henrietta, d. of Frederick Lever; b. 24 Oct. 1942; adm. Sept. 1956 (G); left July 1961; Wadham Coll. Oxf., matric. 1961, BA 1964, MA 1969; fenced for GB in the 1968 Olympics; adm. solicitor 1968; solicitor Slaughter and May 1965-71; assoc. attorney CPC Internat. Inc. 1971-6; legal adviser Reed Internat. Plc. 1976-92; pres., Amateur Fencing Assn.; m. 23 Sept. 1972 Clare June, d. of Sir Douglas Owen Henley KCB, Comptroller and Auditor-General, of Banstead, Surrey; d. 22 Sept. 2007.
HALSEY, LEWKENOR, son of Rev. Richard Halsey, Rector of East Dean, Sussex; b.; adm.; KS 1672; failed to obtain election to either Univ. 1676; d. 28 Aug 1676, aged 19. Buried Cloisters, Westminster Abbey.
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.
Halls, Robert James, son of James Pawlett Hornby Halls, of Kensington; b. June 15, 1873; adm. Sept. 25, 1884 (G); left July 1889.
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.
Hallett, Victor George Henry, son of Denys Bouhier Imbert Hallett (qv); b. 11 Feb. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (G); left July 1939; Queen's Coll. Oxf., matric. 1939, BA 1946, MA 1957; KRRC 1941, transf. Parachute Regt (Capt.), attached 12 Commando, Popski's Private Army, and Italian partisans; wounded 1945, despatches (Med.) May 1946; called to the Bar (Inner Temple) June 1949; a Conveyancing Counsel of the Court 1971-6; a Social Security (formerly Nat. Insurance) Commr 1976-; author of Hallett's Conveyancing Precedents 1965; m. 27 Sept. 1947 Margaret, d. of John Henry Hamlyn of Burgess Hill, Sussex; d. 2014