Hebbert, Henry Eric, 1893-1980 (Colonel)
Dates
- Existence: 1893 - 1980
Biography
Henry Eric Hebbert (1893-1980) was born in Dalhousie, a hill station in the Punjab, on 20 September 1893. He was educated at private schools in Reigate and Crowthorne in Berkshire before attending Wellington College. He proceeded to the Royal Military College, Woolwich, where he received a Sapper's Commission in August 1914. He went to France in early 1915 with the 12th Division of the Royal Engineers, and was later given the command of the 21st Division, ending the war as a Lieutenant Colonel. After the war Hebbert was second in command, and subsequently in charge of, a program for training Sapper Officers in Cambridge. He spent four years at Cambridge as a member of Gonville and Caius College, taking an Honours Degree in Engineering and an M.A. In 1924 he took up a position with the Sudan Public Works Department, first in Khartoum, and then at Port Sudan as Divisional Engineer in charge of the Red Sea Province, extending from the Egyptian border to the Eritrean frontier. He became Director of the Post and Telegraph Department, giving him responsibility for the whole of Sudan, and retired in 1945. Hebbert married Anne Mathews in 1933. During World War Two he served as a full Colonel with the Yugoslav partisans, retiring to his family home in Somerset in 1946. He died on 15 March 1980.
Likenesses:
RCMS 120/1/1 and 120/1/2.
Sources:
RCMS 120/9.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
At the Khartoum races, 1939 - 1941
135 x 85 mm. Showing eight Europeans stood by the racetrack. Hebbert is fifth from the left. Mrs Hebbert is third from the left, identified as 'LMH'.
Colonel and Mrs Hebbert, 1930 - 1937
95 x 125 mm. Showing Hebbert and Anne in their garden.
[Colonel and Mrs Hebbert], 1930 - 1937
95 x 125 mm. Showing the couple stood in their garden.
Henry Eric Hebbert, 1936
120 x 90 mm. Showing Hebbert in uniform posing in a garden.
King George Accession day 1938/9, 1938 - 1939
170 x 115 mm. Groups seated at tables al fresco. Hebbert is on the front left table, fourth from the left.
[Polo match], 1937 - 1938
135 x 85 mm. Showing a line of people sat behind a rope barrier. Presumably they are watching a polo match. There is a marquee pitched behind them. Hebbert and his wife Anne are fifth and sixth from the left. On the reverse of the print are two words, one of which may be 'Khartoum', with the date '1938'.
Reception at the Khartoum Palace - King George Accession Day 1939, 1939
135 x 85 mm. Showing people stood in groups in the Palace grounds. Hebbert is in the centre of the photograph.
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