Brigadier Herle Maudslay Hordern, OBE
1892-1981
Full Dress Tunic, c. 1914
Hordern
attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and was commissioned
into the Royal Artillery in 1913. As a Captain, he received the Military
Cross for service in The Great War in 1918. Beginning in 1922, Hordern
served with the Mechanical Warfare Experimental Establishment, which was
responsible for the development of tanks and armoured vehicles. For
this, he was appointed an Officer, Order of the British Empire in 1927.
Hordern became Deputy Assistant Director of Mechanization in 1932. He
was made Commandant of the Military College of Science in 1941 and made a
Temporary Brigadier in 1942. Hordern retired in 1946 and was granted
the honorary rank of Brigadier
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