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 37 Collections and/or Records:
Luggage and selves at Kassala, 1943
120 x 90 mm. Showing Hebbert and his wife Anne stood beside their automobile, with their luggage piled up around them. The caption beneath the image reads 'The luggage which all fitted inside the car.'
Meru, 1939 - 1941
85 x 105 mm. Showing Hebbert fishing in a fast flowing stream.
Midday lunch, 2nd day, 1943
90 x 100 mm. A view of Hebbert sat beside a river.
On trek in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan, 1937 - 1939
220 x 130 mm. Showing camels and camel trainers resting under the shade of trees. Hebbert is stood far left in the background.
[Picnic], 1933
60 x 60 mm. Showing Hebbert and a group of women (presumably his mother and sisters) having a picnic on the grass. Hebberts wife Anne is on the far right.
[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'.
Pwll Bottom, 1930 - 1937
110 x 65 mm. Showing Hebbert, two women and two dogs sat on a stone step.
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.
Shambat, 1939 - 1941
85 x 115 mm. Showing people seated in groups in a garden. A few people have been identified in pencil beneath the print, but are mostly illegible. Hebbert is sat fourth from the left, his wife, identified as LMH, is second from the left.
Terraces at Sunni, 1942-06-09
125 x 95 mm. A view of the Sunni landscape. A man and woman (perhaps Colonel and Mrs Hebbert) are stood admiring the view.
The RAF dance, 1939
175 x 115 mm. Showing people seated at tables beside the dance floor. This is an outdoor event. Hebbert is seated far right.
Trip in Ethiopia, HEH and LMH and luggage, 1943
Numbered and labelled slides from the Hebberts' trip to Ethiopia.
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- Archival Object 36
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Africa (continent) 28
- Sudan (nation) 25
- Khartoum (inhabited place) 7
- Khartoum (region) 7
- Europe (continent) 4
- United Kingdom (nation) 4
- Ash-Shariqyah (region) 3
- British Isles (island group) 3
- Devon (county) 3
- England (country) 3
- Great Britain (island) 3
- Westward Ho! (inhabited place) 3
- Ethiopia (nation) 2
- Kassala (inhabited place) 2
- Kassala (province) 2
- Darfur (region) 1
- Eastern (province) 1
- Erkowit (inhabited place) 1
- Gwynedd (county) 1
- Kenya (nation) 1
- Meru (inhabited place) 1
- Red Sea (province) 1
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