Humphry Tollemache

Sir Humphry Tollemache, Bt
Born	(1897-08-10)10 August 1897 Eastbourne, Sussex
Died	30 March 1990(1990-03-30) (aged 92)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Marines
Years of service	1915–1952
Rank	Major General
Commands held	Royal Marines Depot (1946–47) Small Operations Group (1944–45) 3 Mobile Naval Base Brigade (1943–44)
Battles/wars	First World War Second World War
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Major General Sir Humphry Thomas Tollemache, 6th Baronet CB, CBE, DL (10 August 1897 – 30 March 1990) was a senior Royal Marines officer and baronet.

Early life and career

Tollemache was the son of Sir Lyonel Tollemache, 4th Baronet and Hersilia Henrietta Diana Oliphant.^[1] He was educated at Eastbourne College. Commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1915, he served with the Grand Fleet from 1916 to 1918. Between 1929 and 1931 he was Adjutant of the Royal Marines Depot. From 1936 to 1939, he was brigade major.

Second World War and after

Tollemache spent much of the Second World War in the Admiralty. On 13 December 1941 he was promoted to acting lieutenant colonel. His various appointments included command of Royal Marine deployments in the Middle East and Far East (1939–1945), Commander of 3 Mobile Naval Base Brigade (1943–1944) and Commander of the Small Operations Group (1944–1945).^[2]

Following the war, Tollemache became Commander of the Royal Marines Depot (1946–1947) and Director of Pay and Records Office, Royal Marines (1947–1949).^[3] Between 1949 and his retirement in 1952, he was General Officer Commanding the Portsmouth Group, Royal Marines, having been promoted to major general on 24 November 1949.^[4] He was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1950 and as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1952.

Funerary monument, St Peter's Church, Petersham

Personal life

He married Nora Priscilla Taylor, the daughter of John Taylor, on 6 February 1926, and together they had two sons. Following the death of his brother, Cecil, in 1969, he succeeded to the Tollemache baronetcy.^[5] He is buried at St Peter's Church, Petersham.

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