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Major Sir Hereward Wake Bart MC DL - Signed Military Art
Cranston Fine Arts  Military Art and Artists World War Two Veteran Signatures British Veterans Surnames A to C  Bart, Sir Hereward Wake |
[UP] - Annand, Richard - Austin, Doug - Bart, Sir Hereward Wake - Batts, George - Beach, Sir Hugh - Bishop, Roy - Bourlet, Frank - Bramall, Lord - Brewer, Ernie - Bright, Peter - Brown, John - Bruce, Hugh - Burns, George - Bush, Mike - Carrington, Lord - Chesshire, James - Conder, Henry - Cooper, Bert - Cooper, Johnny - Coventry, Alex - Crookenden, Napier |
Major Sir Hereward Wake Bart MC DL
Bearing an historic name, Hereward Wake was a Sandhurst trained regular officer in the Kings Roval Rifle Corps who served with both the BEF in France and in the Western Desert where he seriousIv wounded in 1942. In Normandy, Wake commanded a company of the 2nd Battalion KRRC in the battles south of Caen and at Falaise. After pursuing the retreating Germans over the Seine and up into Holland, Wake was transferred to a staff role, eventually becoming a liaison officer with General Montgomery. Invalided out of the army in 1947, Wake devoted the remainder of his working life to land agency and farming in Northamptonshire. Since 1969, Sir flereward Wake has been Deputy Lieutenant for Northamptonshire and was Vice Lord Lieutenant for the County from 1983 to 1991.
