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Hart, Adrian John Liddell, 1922-1991, journalist and businessman

  • KCL-AF0416
  • Person
  • 1922-1991

Born 1922; educated at St Andrew's School, Pangbourne, Berkshire, Eton College, Berkshire, and King's College, Cambridge; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Adjutant, Local Defence Volunteers (later renamed the Home Guard), Dartington, Devon, 1940; trained at HMS COLLINGWOOD, Fareham, Hampshire, 1941; commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 1941; service on Flower Class Corvette HMS CARNATION, Battle of the Atlantic, 1941; HMS KING ALFRED, 1942; Sub Lt, HMS JAMAICA, 1942; service on HM Landing Ship Tank 320, Mediterranean, 1943; served with Combined Operations Command, British North African Forces, 1943; Signal Division, Admiralty, London, 1943-1944; HMS COLDSTREAMER, 1944; served on HMS GUARDSMAN, 1944; Flag Lt to Adm Commanding Iceland, 1945; Liberal Party candidate for Blackpool (South Division), Lancashire, General Election, 1945; Assistant Editor, Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, 1945-1946; Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Organisation, New York, USA, 1946-1947; appointed Control Officer Grade 2, Public Revenue and General Finance Branch, Finance Division, Control Service for Germany (British Element), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Berlin, Germany, 1947; served with the Personnel Branch, Administrative Staff, Headquarters, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Berlin, Germany, 1947-1948; worked for the Outward Bound Sea School, 1949; employed as a journalist by Westminster Press Provincial Newspapers Limited, The Yorkshire Observer , Bradford, Yorkshire, and as Lobby Correspondent, House of Commons, London, 1949-1950; Liberal Party candidate for Sowerby, Yorkshire, General Election, 1950; served in the French Foreign Legion as Légionnaire Peter Brand, [1950]-1951; service in 1 Regt Etranger de Cavalerie (1 REC), 1 Groupe d'Escadrons, Groupement Amphibie, Cochin, Indo China, 1951; employed by Outward Bound Trust, Aberdovey, Gwynedd, 1952; employed in the oil industry, Canada, 1953-1954; Editor B, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, Canada, 1955; Associate Editor, Saturday Night , Toronto, Canada, 1955-1956; employed with the Federation of British Industries, 1959-1960; appointed Assistant Director, Society of British Aircraft Constructors, 1960-1962; Analyst, Gordon Rayment and Company Limited, London, 1962-1963; appointed Assistant General Secretary, UN Association International Service, Nov 1963; Executive, Informat public relations company, London, 1965-1966; member of staff, St John's House, hostel for the rehabilitation of homeless young offenders, London, 1968; Warden, Elswick Lodge Rehabilitation Centre, North East Bridgehead Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, Feb-Jul 1971; died 1991. Publications: Strange company (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1953); editor of The sword and the pen: selections from the world's greatest military writings prepared by Sir Basil Liddell Hart (Cassell, London, 1978).

Hart, Leonard George Richard, 1903-1987, Lieutenant Commander RN

  • KCL-AF0324
  • Person
  • 1903-1987

Born in 1903; served in World War Two on HMS FISHGUARD, 44 Escort Group, Western Approaches; served with Fleet Air Arm, [1943-1945]; Educational Officer, HMS ROYAL RUPERT, Germany, 1945-1947; Recreational Libraries Officer, 1952-[1966]; died in 1987.

Hart, Sir Basil Henry Liddell, 1895-1970, Knight, Captain, military historian

Hart, Sir Basil Henry Liddell, 1895-1970, Knight, Captain, military historian

  • KCL-AF0589
  • Person
  • 1895-1970

Born in Paris in 1895; educated at St Paul's London and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; commissioned into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1914; served in World War One, in Ypres and the Somme, 1914-1918; selected for the Royal Tank Corps, but invalided and retired on half pay, 1924; retired from the army as Capt, 1927; military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph , 1925-1935 and The Times , 1935-1939; author 1918-1970; personal adviser to Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, 1937-1938; died in 1970.

Publications: Author of the following unless otherwise stated: New methods in infantry training (University Press, Cambridge, 1918); The framework of a science of infantry tactics (Hugh Rees, London, 1921) reprinted as A science of infantry tactics simplified (W Clowes and Sons, London, 1923, 1926); Paris, or the future of war (Kegan Paul and Co, London, 1925); The lawn tennis masters unveiled (Arrowsmith, London, 1926); A greater than Napoleon - Scipio Africanus (W Blackwood and Sons, London, 1926); The remaking of modern armies (John Murray, London, 1927); Great captains unveiled (W Blackwood and Sons, London, 1927 and Cedric Chivers, Bath, 1971); Reputations (John Murray, London, 1928); Reputations - ten years after (Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1928); The decisive wars of history (G Bell and Sons, London, 1929) reprinted as The strategy of indirect approach (Faber and Faber, London, 1941, 1946), The way to win wars (Faber and Faber, London, 1943) and Strategy - the indirect approach (Faber and Faber, London, 1954, 1967); Sherman (Dodd, Mead and Co, New York, 1929, Ernest Benn, London, 1930, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1933 and Stevens and Sons, London, 1959); The real war 1914-1918 (Faber and Faber, London, 1930) reprinted as A history of the World War 1914-1918 (Faber and Faber, London, 1934, Cassell, London, 1970 and Pan, London, 1972); Foch (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1931 and Penguin, London, 1937); The British way in warfare (Faber and Faber, London, 1932) reprinted as When Britain goes to war (Faber and Faber, London, 1935) and The British way in warfare (Harmondsworth, New York, 1942); The future of infantry (Faber and Faber, London, 1933); The ghost of Napoleon (Faber and Faber, London, 1933); T E Lawrence - in Arabia and after (Jonathan Cape, London, 1934, enlarged edition 1935); The war in outline 1914-1918 (Faber and Faber, London, 1936); co-author of Lawrence of Arabia (Corvinus Press, London, 1936); Europe in arms (Faber and Faber, London, 1937) Through the fog of war (Faber and Faber, London, 1938); We learn from history that we do not learn from history (University College, London, 1938); editor of The next war (Geoffrey Bles, London, 1938); editor of T E Lawrence to his biographer, Liddell Hart (Doubleday, Doran and Co, New York, 1938); The defence of Britain (Faber and Faber, London, 1939); Dynamic defence (Faber and Faber, London, 1940); The current of war (Hutchinson and Co, London ,1941); This expanding war (Faber and Faber, London, 1942); Why don't we learn from history? (G Allen and Unwin, London, 1944 and Allen and Unwin, London, 1972); Thoughts on war (Faber and Faber, London, 1944); Free man or state slave (No Conscription Council, London, 1946); Revolution in warfare (Faber and Faber, London, 1946); The other side of the hill (Cassell and Co, London, 1948, 1951 and 1973 and Hamilton and Co, 1956); Defence of the west (Cassell and Co, London, 1950); editor of the Letters of Private Wheeler (Michael Joseph, London, 1951); editor of The Rommel papers (Collins, London, 1953); T E Lawrence of Arabia and Clouds Hill (1955); editor of The Soviet Army (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1956); The tanks - the history of the Royal Tank Regiment (Cassell, London, 1959); Deterrent or defence (Stevens and Sons, London, 1960); editor of From Atlanta to the sea (Folio Society, London, 1961); Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart (Cassell, London, 1965); co-author of Churchill (Allen Lane the Penguin Press, London, 1969); History of the Second World War (Cassell, London, 1970 and Pan Books, London, 1973); military editor of the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica .

Hasler, Irene Rose, fl 1929-1931, nurse

  • KCL-AF0825
  • Person
  • 1929-1931

Irene Rose Hasler trained as a nurse at King's College Hospital from 1929-1931, gaining General Nursing Council registration in 1931.

Haughton, John Marsden, 1924-1992, Surgeon Rear Admiral

  • KCL-AF0326
  • Person
  • 1924-1992

Born in 1924; educated at Winchester College and St Thomas' Hospital; joined RN, 1949; 45 Commando Royal Marines, Malaya, 1950; Anaesthetic Specialist, RN Hospital, Plymouth, 1952; HMS SUPERB, 1954; RN Hospital, Haslar, 1956; RN Hospital, Chatham, 1958; Senior Anaesthetist, RN Hospital, Malta, 1959; Principal Medical Officer, Royal Yacht Britannia, 1962; Consultant Anaesthetist, RN Hospital Haslar, 1964, Malta, 1968, and Haslar, 1970; Medical Officer in charge, RN Hospital, Malta, 1975, and Plymouth, 1978; Queen's Honorary Physician, 1978-1982; Surgeon R Adm (Naval Hospitals), Haslar, 1980-1982; died in 1992.

Haw, Charlton, 1920-1993, Squadron Leader

  • KCL-AF0327
  • Person
  • 1920-1993

Born in 1920; trained as a lithographer; joined RAF, 1939; served with 504 Sqn, Battle of Britain, 1940, and with 151 Wing, Murmansk, USSR, 1941; awarded Order of Lenin, 1941; commanded RAF squadron at Coolham Airfield, West Sussex, and took part in invasion of Normandy (Operation OVERLORD), 1944; Flight Lt, 1946; commanded 65 Sqn on mission to Sweden, 1948;retired, 1951; died in 1993.

Hayman, William Speed, 1858-1950, physician

  • KCL-AF1135
  • Person
  • 1858-1950

Born, 1858, attended King's College School, 1874-1877; student in the Medical Department of King's College London from 1877; Associate of King's College, 1889, qualifying in 1890; studied under Joseph Lister, Professor of Clinical Surgery at King's College; probably a Senior Dresser under Jeremiah Penny, House Surgeon at King's, 1890; died, 1950.

Heal, Arthur, 1916-2002, Lieutenant

  • KCL-AF0328
  • Person
  • 1916-2002

Born in 1916; served with 8 Bde, 3 Infantry Div during Normandy landings, 1944; Instructor, Royal Engineers Officer Cadet Training Unit, 1944; awarded the Croix de Guerre, 1944; died in 2002.

Heard, John Arthur Edward, 1907-1986, Lieutenant Colonel

  • KCL-AF0329
  • Person
  • 1907-1986

Born 1907; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, Dec 1941; service in Indian Army, 1943-1945; Maj, 1944; demobilised [1947]; Chairman and Managing Director, Carrier Engineering Company Limited, 1979; died 1986.

Hearnshaw, Fossey John Cobb, 1869-1946, Professor of History

  • KCL-AF1136
  • Person
  • 1869-1946

Born in Birmingham, 31 July 1869; educated at Walsall and Manchester Grammar Schools, London University (MA), Peterhouse at Cambridge University (Historical Scholar, MA, LLM), Dublin University (LLD), Cambridge (LittD); External Examiner in History in London University 1909-1913, Durham University 1912-1913, Manchester University 1914-1917, Bristol University 1921, University of Wales 1930; Professor of History at University College, Southampton, 1900-1910; Professor of Modern History in the Armstrong College of the University of Durham, 1910-1912; Professor of Medieval History at King's College London, 1912-1934; Honorary Secretary of the Royal Historical Society, 1931-1934; President of the Historical Association, 1936-1938; Fellow of King's College London, 1926; wrote The centenary history of King's College London, 1828-1928 (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1929); died 10 March 1946.

Publications: Editor of Relics of old Southampton (H M Gilbert & Son, Southampton, 1904); editor and transcriber of Court Leet Records A D 1550 [etc] with D M Hearnshaw (1905 etc); editor of On the proposals for peace with the Regicide Directory of France: letter I (W B Clive, London, 1906); Leet Jurisdiction in England, especially as illustrated by the records of the Court Leet of Southampton (1908); The life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger, Puritan Idealist (1910); A short history of Southampton, in two parts, part I: The story of Southampton in relation to the history of England (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1910); Legal literature [of the age of Dryden] (1912); England in the making (1913); editor of King's College lectures on Colonial problems (G Bell & Sons, London, 1913); Court and Parliament, 1588 to 1688 (1913); A first book of English history (1914); Freedom I Service: six essays on matters concerning Britain's safety and good government (John Murray, London, 1916); Main currents of European history, 1815-1915 (Macmillan & Co, London, 1917); Democracy at the crossways: a study in politics and history with special reference to Great Britain (Macmillan & Co, London, 1918); Municipal records (1918); An outline sketch of the political history of Europe in the Nineteenth Century (Macmillan & Co, London, 1919); editor of Select extracts from chronicles and records relating to English towns in the Middle Ages (London, 1919); Democracy and the British Empire (Constable & Co, London, 1920); editor of Macmillan's historical atlas of modern Europe (Macmillan & Co, London, 1920); editor of Mediaeval contributions to modern civilisation: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1921); The European revolution and after, 1848-1854 (1923); editor of The social and political ideas of some great Mediaeval thinkers: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1923); Newcastle-upon-Tyne...with illustrations (London, 1924); Democracy and labour: a sequel to 'Democracy at the crossways' (Macmillan & Co, London, 1924); A first book of world history (Macmillan & Co, London, 1924); editor of The social & political ideas of some great thinkers of the Renaissance and the Reformation: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1925); editor of The social & political ideas of some great thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1926); editor of The political principles of some notable Prime Ministers of the nineteenth century: a series of lectures (Macmillan & Co, London, 1926); History of Europe revised and brought up to date (Macmillan & Co, London, 1926); The development of political ideas (London, 1927); A survey of socialism, analytical, historical and critical (Macmillan & Co, London, 1928); British Prime Ministers of the eighteenth century (London, 1928); editor of The social & political ideas of some English thinkers of the Augustan age, AD 1650-1750: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1928); editor of The dictionary of English history (Cassell & Co, London, 1928); The centenary history of King's College London, 1828-1928 (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1929); The "Ifs" of history (George Newnes, London, 1929); British Prime Ministers of the Nineteenth century (London, 1930); editor of The social & political ideas of some great French thinkers of the Age of Reason: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1930); editor of The social & political ideas of some representative thinkers of the revolutionary era: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1931); editor of The social & political ideas of some representative thinkers of the age of reaction & reconstruction, 1815-65: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1932); editor of The social & political ideas of some representative thinkers of the Victorian age: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1933); Conservatism in England: an analytical, historical and political survey (Macmillan & Co, London, 1933); editor of Edwardian England, A D 1901-1910: a series of lectures delivered at King's College University of London, during the session 1932-3 (Ernst Benn, London, 1933); The place of Surrey in the history of England (Macmillan & Co, London, 1936); Prelude to 1937: being a sketch of the critical years, A D 1931-1936 (John Murray, London, 1937); Some great political idealists of the Christian era (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1937); The development of political ideas...revised and enlarged edition (London, 1937); Outlines of the history of the British Isles (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1938); Vyvoj politickych idei (Prelozil Vladmir Dedek) (Praha, 1938); Germany the aggressor throughout the ages (W & R Chambers, London & Edinburgh, 1940); Sea-power & empire (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1940); The Socialists' "New Order" (Individualist Bookshop, London, 1941); The socialists' "New Order" (Society of Individualists, London, 1943); The place of Surrey in the history of England: with illustrations by Elizabeth S. Hearnshaw (S R Publishers, Wakefield, 1971).

Hechler, Kenneth William, 1914-2016, US military historian and politician

  • KCL-AF0330
  • Person
  • 1914-2016

Born 1914; educated Roslyn public schools, Swarthmore College, and Columbia University; taught political science at Columbia, Barnard, Princeton and Marshall Universities; research assistant to Judge Samuel Rosenman and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Roosevelt's public papers; section chief, Bureau of the Census, 1940; personnel officer, Office for Emergency Management, 1941; administrative analyst, United States Bureau of the Budget, in 1942 and 1946; entered the United States Army in 1942 as a private in the Infantry; commissioned a second lieutenant, Armored Force, in 1943; assigned to European Theater of Operations as combat historian in 1944, where he interrogated German prisoners of war; special assistant to President Truman 1949-1953; associate director of American Political Science Association at Washington, D.C., 1953-1956; research director, presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; administrative aide to Senator John A. Carroll of Colorado in 1957; moved to Huntington, W.Va., in 1957 to teach at Marshall University; delegate Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1984; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1977); host of a daily talk show and a writer for a weekly newspaper column; science consultant, House Committee on Science and Technology, 1980-1982; taught at the University of Charleston and Marshall University, 1981-1984; elected secretary of state of West Virginia in 1984; died 2016.

Publications: Author of Insurgency: personalities and politics of the Taft era (Columbia University Press, New York, 1940) and The bridge at Remagen (Hamilton, London, 1961).

Helmcken, John Sebastian, 1824-1920, physician

  • KCL-AF0826
  • Person
  • 1824-1920

John Sebastian Helmcken was born at Whitechapel, London, 1824; educated at St George's German and English School, 1828; apprentice to Dr Graves to train as a chemist and druggist, 1839-1841; student, Guy's Hospital, 1844; first prize for Practical Chemistry and second prize for Materia Medica, 1845; Licentiate of the Apothecaries Company, 1847; won one of the two Pupils Physical prizes; Ship's Surgeon with the Hudson's Bay Company, 1847; made voyages to Hudson's Bay and Bombay, India; admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons, 1848; surgeon for the Hudson's Bay Company emigrants, Vancouver Island, 1850; Hudson's Bay Company surgeon to Fort Rupert in May 1850; appointed magistrate in 1850; maintained private practice in Victoria; member of the first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island for Esquimalt and Victoria, 1856; Speaker of the Assembly, 1856-1866; elected as a member for Esquimalt/Metchosin, 1860; President of the Board of Directors for the Royal Jubilee Hospital, 1862-1872, as well as serving as Doctor to the Jail; Chief Trader of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1863-1870; Surgeon, Hudson's Bay Company at Victoria, 1863; elected to the Legislative Council of British Columbia for Victoria/Esquimalt, 1866; re-elected to the Legislative Council, 1868; one of three negotiators at Ottawa to negotiate British Columbia's entry into Canada; appointed to the Executive Council of British Columbia, 1869; retired from politics, 1871; continued practicing medicine as physician to the jail until retiring, 1910; President, British Columbia Medical Association, 1885; died, 1920. Publications include: The reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken edited by Dorothy Blakey Smith (University of British Columbia Press [1975]); To the electors of Esquimalt and Metchosin District. gentlemen, the Legislative Assembly has been dissolved, a general election will shortly ensue [1863?]; To the electors of Esquimalt and Metchosin District. fellow colonists having received an address signed by several of the electors in our district, requesting me again to become a candidate for your suffrage etc [1863?].

Hely, Alfred Francis, 1902-1990, Brigadier

  • KCL-AF0331
  • Person
  • 1902-1990

Born in 1902; educated at St Edward's College, Liverpool and Liverpool University; qualified as a dental surgeon, 1923; worked in private practice, 1923-1926; Liverpool University Officers' Training Corps, 1921-1925; Cadet Corporal, Duke of Lancaster's Own Imperial Yeomanry, 1925-1926; served with 106 (Lancashire Hussars) Yeomanry Regt, Royal Horse Artillery, 1926-1941; served in Palestine, Western Desert, Greece, Crete, and Syria, 1940-1942; commanded 106 Regt in UK, 1937-1940, Palestine, 1940, Western Desert, 1940 and Greece, 1941, and Crete, 1941, and 60 Field Regt, Royal Artillery in Syria, 1941, and Western Desert, 1941-1942; Commander, Royal Artillery, 7 Indian Div, India, 1942, and Burma, 1943-1945; commanded 7 Indian Div, 1945; North West Frontier, India,1942; Burma, 1943-1945; Commander, Royal Artillery, 42 (Lancashire) Infantry Div (Territorial Army), 1947-1950; Chief Dental Officer, Cheshire County Council, 1957-1968; died in 1990.

Henderson, Edward Erskine, fl 1891-1902, surgeon

  • KCL-AF0827
  • Person
  • 1891-1902

Educated at St John's College Cambridge and at Guy's Hospital. Obtained BA Cambridge, MB BCh Camb 1895, FRCS Eng 1902. Entered Guy's Hospital, Sep 1891.

Henniker, Sir Mark Chandos Auberon, 1906-1991, Baronet, Brigadier

  • KCL-AF0332
  • Person
  • 1906-1991

Born in 1906; educated at Marlborough College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and King's College, Cambridge; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1926; Lt, 1927; served in India, 1928-1934, including Mohmand Campaign, 1933; Capt, 1936; served in UK, 1937-1939 and France, 1939-1940; Commander, Royal Engineers, 1 Airborne Div, 1942; served in North Africa, 1943, Italy, 1943, North West Europe, 1944-1945, and India, 1946-1947; publication of Memoirs of a junior officer (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1951); Commander, 63 Gurkha Infantry Bde, Malaya, 1952-1955; Brig, 1955; publication of Red shadow over Malaya (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1955); Commander, Royal Engineers, Egypt, 1956; publication of Life in the Army today (Cassell and Co, London, 1957; retired in 1958; Honorary Col, Parachute Engineer Regt, 1959-1968; Honorary Col, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1964-1968; died in 1991.

Herbert, Charles Edward Mercer, 1904-1981, Brigadier

  • KCL-AF0333
  • Person
  • 1904-1981

Born in 1904; educated at Brighton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1922-1924; 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1924; Lt, 1926; attended Railway Training Centre, Longmoor, 1926-1930; seconded as Assistant Engineer, Tanganyika Railways, 1930-1932; 1932-1934; Quartermaster General, Transportation Branch, War Office, 1934-1938; Capt, 1935; Staff Capt, Transportation, Palestine and Transjordan, 1938-1940; Deputy Assistant Director of Transportation, Palestine and Transjordan, 1940; Assistant Director-General of Transportation, Palestine, 1940; Maj, 1941; Assistant Director of Movements and Transport (Plans), General HQ, Middle East Force, 1941-1943; Assistant Director of Transportation (Coordination, Plans and Administration), 1943-1944; Deputy Director of Transportation, Administrative Planning Mission to Australia, 1944; Deputy Director of Transportation, Allied Commission for Austria (British Element), 1944-1945; Brig, 1945; Director of Transportation, Burma, 1945; Assistant Director of Transportation, 501 Interservice Mission, East Africa, 1946; Director of Transportation, War Office, 1950-1957; retired 1957; died in 1981.

Herbert, Julia Ashbourne Daisy, b 1881, nurse

  • KCL-AF0829
  • Person
  • 1881-

Julia Ashbourne Herbert was born at Brighton on 26 Mar 1881, the daughter of F A Herbert. She trained as a nurse at King's College Hospital, and in 1912, joined the Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS). At the outbreak of World War One, Herbert was employed at the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Rd, London. In August 1914, she joined her TFNS unit - the 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln, where she worked until Mar 1917. In 1917 Herbert volunteered for service in the field and was posted to the No.35 General Hospital at Calais, France, from Mar 1917-Aug 1918, then to the No1 Casualty Clearing Station near Arras and Mons, until demobilised, Mar 1919. Herbert was mentioned in despatches, 7 Nov 1917, and awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous devotion to duty after being wounded in the head by an aerial bomb. She received three blue service chevrons, and the British War Medal, 1914-1919; and The Victory Medal with oak leaf emblem. Herbert later joined the Society of St Margaret, East Grinstead, a Church of England religious community, where she was known as Sister Julian.

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