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HOLBROOK, EDMUND ROBERT ST. GEORGE, only son of Lieut. Edmund Robert St. George Holbrook, Royal Artillery, Gibraltar, Spain, and Caroline Jane, dau. of Col. Charles Holden, 52nd Foot; b. 19 Jul 1867; adm. 28 Jan 1879 (H); QS 22 Mar 1883; left Jul 1884; Lieut., Gloucestershire Regt. 25 Aug 1886; Capt., 16 Jun 1894; Adjutant 19 Oct 1894 – 4 May 1897; Capt., West Yorkshire Regt. 25 Aug 1897; DAAG Western Command, Bombay Presidency 21 Apr 1902; d. at Poona, Bombay 17 Sep 1905.

Hogg, Richard William, son of William Edward Hogg CBE, chief inspecting engineer Crown Agents for the Colonies, and Harriet Gladys, d. of William Tring, solicitor; b. 4 Oct. 1918; adm. Jan. 1931 (H); left July 1937; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1937, BA 1940, MA 1945; Air Min. Res. Estab. Swanage 1940, Roy. Aircraft Estab. Farnborough 1942; AMIEE 1948; defence res. staff British Embassy Washington 1962; RAE Farnborough 1965-79; CEng MIEE 1967; retd 1979; m. 16 Oct. 1954 Kathleen June Huggett, med. social worker, d. of Douglas Daniel Huggett, Air Min. Works Directorate, Bristol; d. 4 Dec. 2002.

Hodgson, Sir Gerald Hassall, son of the Rev. Francis Douglas Hodgson, Vicar of Worth, near Dover, Kent, by Margaret, daughter of Lieut. Christopher Clarke Hassall, R., of Tunbridge Wells, Kent; grandson of John George Hodgson (q.v.); b. July 20, 1891; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (H); left July 1908; a clerk in the Deal branch of the National Provincial Bank 1908-11; asst. to Messrs. Parry and Co., Madras, 1911-6; general manager in India to the Commonwealth Trust, Ltd., Calicut, 1925-28; managing director of Parry & Co., Ltd., Madras 1928-44; member of Madras Legislative Council; knighted 1943; author of Thomas Parry, Freemerchant, madras (1938); a donor of the Madras Cup 1931; served in France with 1st and 6th Batts. of the Royal West Kent Regt. Sept. 1916 - Nov. 1917; wounded at the first battle of Cambrai Nov. 20, 1917; m. 1st July 2, 1924, Margaret Emma, daughter of Henry Sibley Hogge, of Ferndown, Dorset; 2nd Sept. 20, 1929, Sylvia Joan, daughter of Maximilian Robert Lawrence, of Dagenham, Essex; d. 1 July 1971.

Hobday, Frederick Thomas John, son of Major Sir Frederick George Thomas Hobday, C.M.G., Principal of the Royal Veterinary College, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Evans, of Thornbury, Herefs; b. Dec. 12, 1901; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (H); left July 1920; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1920; shot for Cambridge v. Oxford 1921-4, and for Eng­land in the Elcho Match 1922 and 1923; B.A. 1923, M.A. 1930, B. Ch. 1931; St. Bartholo­mew's Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1931; practised at Yeovil, Somerset, and afterwards at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia; m. April 22, 1933, Sezerina Néomi, daughter of Daniel Radford, of Darenup, Kojonup, Western Australia; d. 14 Mar. 1986.

Hine, Ernest Daryll, son of George Ernest Hine, of Ealham, by Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William Davidge, of Fulham; b. Oct. 5, 1888; adm. April 26, 1901 (H); left Easter 1906; a surveyor; P. A. S. I. 1910; F. S. I. 1919; practised in London; with the French Red Cross at Bar-le-due 1914; served with the 24th Batt. London Regt. in France, Salonika, and Palestine; Capt. July 27, 1918; Commandant of the Aliens Internment Camp, Alexandria, 1918-9; m. June 21, 1921, Phyllis Elizabeth, daughter of Herbert William Lauder, of Alexandria; d. Oct. 29, 1952.

Hilliard, Leslie Theodore, son of Harvey Hilliard CBE MD MRCS, consulting anaesthetist, and Charlotte Rippon, d. of Walter Hazell; b. 11 Mar. 1905; adm Jan. 1919 (H); left Aug. 1922; Jesus Coll. Camb., matric. 1922, BA 1925, MA 1929; St Georges Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1927, BCh 1929, MB 1937; FRCPsych 1973; MO Hanwell Mental Hosp., later supt physician Fountain Hosp.; m. 7 Nov. 1936 Doris Elizabeth Bunbury MB, d. of Rev. George Alexander Bunbury of Bath; d. 17 Jan. 1997.

Hill, Graham Semyon, son of Lionel Hill, consult. engineer, of Hampstead, and Ethel, d. of Louis Courlander of Steyning, Sussex; b. 5 Oct. 1916; adm. Sept. 1929 (H), non-res. KS Sept. 1930; left July 1935; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1938, MA 1946; Middx Regt 1939-45 (Lieut.); Principal Min. of Transport & Civil Aviation 1947, Asst Sec. 1957; m. 26 Dec. 1952 Raymonde Suzanne, d. of Arthur Charles Comte, of Delemont, Jura, Switzerland; d. Jan. 1996.

Higgs, Eustace Crompton, son of Edwin John Higgs of Chiswick and Ruby Broomhall Cham­bers; b. 23 Sept. 1910; adm. May 1924 (H); left July 1927; Clerical & Med. Assurance Soc. 1927-38, branch man. Bristol 1946-9; Roy. Signals (TA) 1939-50 (Capt.), MC (NW Europe) Mar. 1945; SRO Jan. 1951, retd as Maj. 1953; partner H. J. SIutter & Partners 1949-65; self­ employed in Cornwall 1965; m. 26 July 1938 Marjorie Mercer, d. of Henry John Camp, civil servant, of Chiswick; d. 12 May 1980.

Hicks, Richard George Vyvyan, son of Vyvyan George Hooper Hicks, solicitor, and Winifred Heyhoe, d. of Rev. Richard Warcup Pitt, Rector of Saxlingham, Norfolk; b. 28 Mar. 1923; adm. Jan. 1937 (H); left July 1941; Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1941, BA 1944; REME 1944-5 (Lieut.); d. of typhoid fever (Bombay) 3 July 1945.

Richard George Vyvyan Hicks was born in Norfolk on the 28th of March 1923 the only son of Vyvyan George Hooper Hicks, a solicitor, and Winifred Heyhoe (nee Pitt) Hicks of “The Grove”, Scarning in Norfolk He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from January 1937 to July 1941. He matriculated for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1941 and achieved a BA in 1944.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on the 12th of February 1944.
He died of typhoid fever at the British Military Hospital, Bombay.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Scarning and on the memorial at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He is buried at Kirkee War Cemetery Plot 2, Row K, grave 9.

Hicks, Edmund Johnstone Hay, son of Charles Stansfield Hicks, tea dealer, of South Woodford, Essex, and Mary Conran, d. of General Woulfe Hay, Madras Staff Corps; b. 20 Aug. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (H); left July 1926; Lond. Coll. of Divinity; ord. deacon 1934, priest 1935 (Lond.); Curate St John Southall, Middx, 1934, Illogan, Cornwall, 1936, Reigate, Surrey 1937; Chaplain to the Forces 1940; Vicar of Holy Trinity Hinckley, Staffs, 1946, St Paul Barrow-in-Furness 1953; m. 28 Jan. 1941 Agnes Mary, d. of Basil Hewitt Pain MB, of Reigate; d. 20 Jan. 1959.