Lot Essay
M.M. London Gazette 6.8.1918.
French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 10.10.1918.
The Reverend Henry Whiteman, M.M., a Derbyshire man, first entered the French Theatre of War as a Trumpeter with the Royal Field Artillery in March 1915 and subsequently won his M.M. with the Royal Engineers. Sometime thereafter travelling to Australia, he attended Ridley College, Melbourne, took Holy Orders and acted as Curate at Skipton-in-Craven in 1931. He was afterwards Vicar at Cowling, Yorkshire from 1933-37 and the Rector of Carleton-in-Craven between 1937-43. Meanwhile he had been appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces, which post he relinquished in 1945. Latterly a Rector at Everdon, East Farndon and Marston Trussell, he retired in the early 1960s and was resident in Holcot, Northamptonshire as late as 1978.
French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 10.10.1918.
The Reverend Henry Whiteman, M.M., a Derbyshire man, first entered the French Theatre of War as a Trumpeter with the Royal Field Artillery in March 1915 and subsequently won his M.M. with the Royal Engineers. Sometime thereafter travelling to Australia, he attended Ridley College, Melbourne, took Holy Orders and acted as Curate at Skipton-in-Craven in 1931. He was afterwards Vicar at Cowling, Yorkshire from 1933-37 and the Rector of Carleton-in-Craven between 1937-43. Meanwhile he had been appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces, which post he relinquished in 1945. Latterly a Rector at Everdon, East Farndon and Marston Trussell, he retired in the early 1960s and was resident in Holcot, Northamptonshire as late as 1978.