Lt-Col. Hugh Percival Thomson Lefroy (1880-1955)
1922 Major R.E., D.S.O., M.C., Chevalier of Legion of Honour, Carrigglas Manor, Longford, Ireland; b. 1880; descended from Huguenot family, which came over from Cambrai in Queen Elizabeth's reign, Ed. Cheltenham College (1895-7) and at the R.M.A.,. Woolwich (1898-9). Commissioned in Royal Engineers, 1899. Served in South Africa (Railways),. Shorncliffe, Gibraltar, Aldershot (Wireless). Head of the Experimental Section for developing Army Field and Aircraft Wireless, 1909, to August, 1914. Now at Signal Experimental Establishment, Woolwich, and Member of Sub-Committee " B " of Radio, Research Board. Clubs: Junior United Service, London; Kildare Street, Dublin. War Services.—During the Great War on all branches of wireless work in France, Egypt, Salonica, Mesopotamia and Persia, and in India after the armistice.