Name
Hugh Kenyon Molesworth Kindersley
Conflict
First World War
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Biography
Hugh Kindersley was born on 7th May 1899 in Knightsbridge, London. He was the second son of Robert and Gladys Kindersley. Robert Kindersley was a businessman, stock-broker, merchant banker and public servant. By 1914 he was Director of the Bank of England and was living at Langley House in Abbots Langley. Robert and Gladys married in 1896 and had four sons and two daughters. Hugh was recorded in the 1911 Census away at boarding school in Broadstairs, and was later educated at Eton College.
Hugh was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in October 1917 having been commissioned in the Scots Guards. In the January 1918 Roll of Honour he was listed with the rank of Lieutenant, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1918. He was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919, serving with the Scots Guards, and his address was given at Langley House, Abbots Langley.
Hugh survived the War and after a distinguished career in banking re-joined the Scots Guards at the outbreak of the Second World War. At 03.30 hours on D Day, 6th June 1944 he parachuted into occupied France commanding 6 Air Landing Brigade and was one of the first Allied soldiers to take part in the Normandy Landings. His elder brother Lionel was killed in action at Bourlon Wood, near Cambrai on 25th November 1917. Edward Hare the husband of Hugh’s cousin, Beatrice, survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
