Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Pelham Heneage, DSO MP

 

 

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.