Brigadier Oswald Yates Hibbert

Generation 5 ii

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Brigadier Oswald Yates Hibbert b.26 January 1882 d.4 July 1966

Son (ii) of Percy John Hibbert b.27.6.1850 d.29.9.1926 and Emily Augusta Diana Yates b.20 July 1853 d.15 October 1942 More information

Married (1) 7 January 1914 Violet Marion Watson Pike d.18 May 1935 [picture]

of Tuberculosis, daughter of Major General Sir William Watson Pike KCMG DSO, deputy head of the RAMC.

They had twin boys, born in Naserabad, India:

M i Richard 'Dick' Oswald Hibbert b.16 December 1914 d.1979.

M ii John Desmond Hibbert b.16 December 1914 d.22 April 2001. Known as 'Desmond', he served in the Royal Engineers, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In WW2, he served in India and Burma, seeing action at Imphal and during the later advance through Burma. Following a period on staff in Europe in 1944, he then took part in the battle for the Rhine crossing at Nijmegen (1944), building Bailey bridges there and at other river crossings. He worked for the War Crimes Commission at Singapore after the war. He served on Military mission in Greece and later in the War Office. After retirement from the Army, he settled in the Lake District.

Married (2) Dorothea 'Dot' Boyd, who came from Northern Ireland. They had no children.

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Brigadier Oswald Yates Hibbert b.26 January 1882 d.4 July 1966

Oswald Hibbert reached the rank of Colonel in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Following the siege of Kut-al-Amara in Iraq, during which he was awarded the DSO, he was imprisoned by the Turkish Army in poor conditions, and had to be repatriated across Europe in an ambulance he was so weak on his release. After the end of World War 1 he continued in the army, serving in India and Ireland before retiring. He came out of retirement and took the post of Commander, North West region of Britain as Brigadier in World War 2. After the war he lived at Stoneydale in Field Broughton near Cartmel, and then Woodcroft in Haverthwaite, in the Lake District, England.

Violet Marion Watson Pike d.18 May 1935

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Index list of names found in the Anderson, Beckett, Geddes, Hibbert, Jeans, Jeffrey, Murray and Pike family trees
Anderson of Inverugie, Scotland - first of 9 generations of Anderson family tree
James Robertson Beckett - first of 5 generations of Beckett family tree
"Tacksman" David Geddes - first of 10 generations of Geddes family tree
Joseph Hibbert of Lancashire - first of 9 generations of Hibbert family tree
George Henry Jeans - first of 6 generations of Jeans family tree
John Jeffrey - first of 5 generations of Jeffrey family tree
John Murray - first of 9 generations of Murray family tree
Richard Pike - first of 9 generations of Pike family tree
Details of Holiday cottage near Cartmel, Cumbria South Lakes.

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Notes on sources

Anderson family tree

Information is largely taken from the book 'The Andersons of Peterhead'. This was based on the records made by John Anderson 1825/1903 [VIII 32], known as 'China John'. This was brought up to date in 1936 by Cecil Ford Anderson [X 17] and Agnes Donald Ferguson [CS 45 X b]. Many photographs were taken and compiled in an album by Olive Edis (daughter of Mary Murray, daughter of Andrew Murray (2) of Aberdeen).

Forrest family tree

Iain Forrest kindly supplied material to update the Forrest family (progeny of William Forrest) details and corrections to both Janet Innes Anderson's and Alexander Murray's death dates.

Hibbert family tree

The information is largely taken from a tree compiled by F.B. (she knows who she is!) with extra material found by the author.

Murray family tree

The 'Genealogical Table showing various branches of the Murray family', from which this information was taken, was prepared by Alexander Murray of Blackhouse, extended by Andrew Murray - advocate - Aberdeen circa 1880 and further extended by Arthur Murray Watt 1972. The generational notation is the author's.

Pike family tree

Information from family sources as well as 'Burke's Landed Gentry' 1875

And the rest

Thanks also to all who have written in with information, advice, help and, most importantly, corrections.

29 January, 2010

M	i	Richard 'Dick' Oswald Hibbert b.16 December 1914 d.1979.
M	ii	John Desmond Hibbert b.16 December 1914 d.22 April 2001. Known as 'Desmond', he served in the Royal Engineers, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In WW2, he served in India and Burma, seeing action at Imphal and during the later advance through Burma. Following a period on staff in Europe in 1944, he then took part in the battle for the Rhine crossing at Nijmegen (1944), building Bailey bridges there and at other river crossings. He worked for the War Crimes Commission at Singapore after the war. He served on Military mission in Greece and later in the War Office. After retirement from the Army, he settled in the Lake District.