Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Pelham Heneage, DSO MP
1881-1971
Dress Jacket, c. 1903
Heneage
graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in 1900 and was
gazetted to the Royal Horse Artillery on August 18, initially assigned
to S Battery at Aldershot. He was promoted to lieutenant in July of
1903. Heneage accompanied S battery to South Africa in 1904, first to
Krugersdorp and then to Pretoria. He was transferred to J Battery in
1907 and posted to Rawal Pindi, Punjab; the battery returned to England
the following year. Heneage obtained his captaincy in January of 1912
and was transferred to the 70th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery. He
was made a Staff Captain in early 1915 and then promoted to major,
becoming a Brigade Major in 1916. During this period, Heneage served in
Serbia and was awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, 4th Class
in April of 1917 for operations in November and December of 1915.
Subsequently, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in June of
1917. Heneage was made a Deputy Assistant Adjutant General that August
and promoted to acting lieutenant colonel in May of 1918. He returned
from his staff position to the Royal Field Artillery in 1919 as a
supernumerary major. Heneage retired from the service in May of 1924 and
was granted the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was elected to
Parliament in 1924 for the Louth Division of Lincolnshire, remaining a
Member of Parliament until 1945. Heneage was made Deputy Lord Lieutenant
for Lincolnshire in March of 1936, knighted by the King on February 16,
1945, and served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1947. He was made
Honorary Colonel of the 529th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal
Artillery of the Territorial Army in December of 1947 and served in that
role until 1956.
