Major Cyril Rupert HUGGINS
Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps

Date of birth: 22nd October 1886
Date of death: 28th October 1956

Died aged 70
Unknown
Cyril Rupert Huggins was born at Whyteleafe in Surrey on the 22nd of October 1886 the third son of Charles Lang Huggins JP, a stockbroker, and Agnes Maud (nee Dingwall) Huggins of Hadlow Grange, Hadlow Down near Uckfield in Sussex.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until April 1900 where he was a member of the Choir. On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him: - "Goes to Wellington, and will be missed in the Choir and on the stage."

He went on to Wellington College where he was in Mr. Brougham’s House from May 1900 to 1902. In 1905 he matriculated for Brasenose College Oxford where he achieved a BA in 1910.

He went on to study law at the Inner Temple in 1910 and lodged at 59 Davis Street, Berkley Square in London. He became a member of the Worshipful Company of Saddlers on the 20th of July 1908.

Following the outbreak of war he was commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service on the 29th of August 1914. and was posted to HMS Pembroke for: - "Service in connection with transportation of Naval Brigade to Belgium (Motor Cars)." He served in Flanders and was besieged at Antwerp, leaving the Air Service on the 22nd of October 1914. On the 23rd of March 1915 he disembarked in France for service with the Red Cross Society Motor Ambulance Unit.

He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant on the 6th of December 1915 and was posted to 19 Reserve Squadron. He was appointed as an Assistant Equipment Officer on the 21st of January 1916 and was stationed at Farnborough in charge of Home Defence Equipment in the Stores Department in the Aeronautical Engineering Branch. He served for a time with 39 Squadron until the 13th of January 1917 when he was promoted to Equipment Officer 2nd Class, was promoted to Temporary Captain while so employed and was posted to Canada where he was engaged in instructional liaison work. He was appointed as a Flight Commander on the 1st of July 1917 and as a Park Commander on the 17th of August 1917. He was promoted to Captain on the 10th of October 1917 and to Temporary Major on the 1st of April 1918. He was posted to the Headquarters of 44 Wing on the 1st of December 1918 and returned to the UK on board the SS "Olympic", landing at Southampton on the 6th of April 1919.

After the war he became a fruit and vegetable grower and lived at "Little Buwells", Petersfield in Hampshire.

He was married to Mary Elizabeth (nee Ritchie) in 1925 and he died at Can Adam Pollensa in Mallorca.
Went on to Wellington College

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