Henry Batten Huddleston

Henry Batten Huddleston
OBE VD
Born(1864-01-22)22 January 1864
Barrackpore, India
Died7 March 1944(1944-03-07) (aged 80)
Hove, England
NationalityBritish

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Batten Huddleston OBE VD (22 January 1864 – 7 March 1944),[1] also known as H.B. Huddleston, was Chief Agent and later a Director of the Burma Railways.[2][3][4][5] During World War I, Huddleston commanded the Burma Railway Battalion of the Indian Defence Force.[6] He was Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Burma and Chairman of the Rangoon Port Trust.[7][8][9]

  1. ^ Death Notice, The Times, March 10, 1944, p.1
  2. ^ The London Gazette, 17 January 1919, Issue 31131, p. 920
  3. ^ Henry Batten Huddleston on Lives of the First World War
  4. ^ Doyle, Patrick (March 20, 1904). "Indian Engineering" – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Nokes, George Augustus; Gairns, John Francis (March 20, 1925). "The Railway Year Book". Railway Publishing Company, Limited – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Huddleston, George (March 20, 1928). "... (The) Huddlestons by a Huddleston for the Huddlestons". Bristol, St. Stephen's Press – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ Supplement to The London Gazette, 7 January 1918, Issue 30460, p. 388
  8. ^ "The Railway Gazette". Queen Anne's Chambers. March 20, 1918 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Trust, Rangoon (India) Port (March 20, 1910). "Annual Report and Accounts" – via Google Books.