John
Firstname
D.
Middle Name
Hennings
Surname
Date of Birth
School Years:
Date of Death:
1932 - 41
Family
School Record
House Captain Rigaud House and School Prefect. First XV colours. Editor of the School Magazine and leading Actor. Open Exhibition in Modern History at University College Oxford where he gained First class Honours.
Branch of Service:
RAFVR
Service Number:
Rank:
Decorations:
Service Record
Flight Lieutenant
Campaign Medals
Post War Career
Served in General Duties Branch, having been trained in the USA.
In 1966 was appointed head of the British Consular Mission in Salisbury Northern Rhodesia and mentioned regularly in the national press in connection with talks between the British Government and the Smith regime. He subsequently served as Head of Chancery in the British High Commission in India and was Acting British High Commissioner in Uganda at the time of the expulsion of Asians from the country by Idi Amin. He then became the British High Commissioner in Jamaica and finally Singapore.
Burial Information
Additional Information
President O. I. Club in 1984. Curriculum Vitae in OIM No. 32 of 1984 at pages 64/5.
Obituary OIM No.34 of 1986 at page 119.
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