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| Major Hugh Evelyn Jackson LISTER (102124) MC | |
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Support Company, 1st (Infantry) Battalion Welsh Guards Date of birth: 15th May 1901 Date of death: 9th September 1944 Killed in action aged 43 Buried at Leopoldsburg War Cemetery Plot IV Row A Grave 10 |
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| Hugh Evelyn Jackson Lister was born at 30, Fountain Hill Road, Aberdeen, Scotland on the 15th of May 1901 the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Hugh Lister MD CMG, Royal Army Medical Corps, and of Sybil (nee Palgrave) Lister later of The Old Rectory, Purley, Reading in Berkshire He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School from 1910 to 1916 and at Lancing College where he was in Sandersons House from September 1916 to July 1919. He served as a Private in the Officer Training Corps. He went on to Trinity College, Cambridge where he was admitted as a pensioner on the 1st of October 1919 and achieved a BA third class Mechanical Sciences Tripos in 1922. While at Cambridge he was a member of the Leander Club. On leaving university he went to work as an engineer for the Great Western Railways from 1923 to 1927, working in Cardiff, Swindon and London. While he was at Swindon he spent some time living in the workmen's dormitories where he gained great empathy with the working men he met there. He left this work and instead went to Cuddesdon Theological College in 1928 taking holy orders there in 1929. On leaving college he served as Curate of All Saint |
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