Lieutenant-Colonel Hoss Herdon
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Major R.G. Kreyer2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

He was a well thought of chap. Hoss Herdon they called him, that was his name I think or his initials, I don’t know … I understand he’d been killed by machine gun fire … I think all the officers were very well respected. No question about that, I think. I think this was proof of maybe a regular battalion … more respect for their officers than the one that was sort of called up into active service.

(Russell King, IWM, 21 Sep 1998) https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80017285

Born in British India on 16 November 1905, Hugh Owen Seymour Herdon was the son of an Indian Army general and commissioned officer with Royal Warwickshire Regiment since 1925. He was promoted to captain in 1936 and then major in 1940. By 1941, he was a general staff officer with the War Office. He assumed command of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September 1943.

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