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[[Colonel]] '''Henry Allan Roughton May''' was a member (1882-1921) and Commanding Officer (1912 and 1920) of the [[Artists Rifles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artistsriflesassociation.org/regiment-artists-rifles.htm |title=Artists Rifles Association |publisher=Artists Rifles Association |date=1914-08-04 |accessdate=2011-01-27}}</ref> He was also recipient of the [[Order of the Bath]], and the [[Volunteer Decoration]] |
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==Early life== |
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May was educated at [[Bloxham School]].<ref>http://oldbloxhamist.bloxhamschool.com/The%20Bloxhamist/1924_03.pdf</ref> |
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==Military career== |
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May joined the Artists' Rifles in 1882, as a private but rose to the rank of Colonel. In 1914, when the call came, he was in command of the corps, which formed then the 28th Battalion London Regiment, |
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and after being in command of troops at the Tower, he went over to France in October, 1914,just after the disastrous retreat from Mons, when General French's army was denuded of officers. General |
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French called on the Artists to replace the heavy casualties, and this, under Colonel May, was done, and done so well that for the greater part of the war period May was occupied in training |
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officers for the Army. He also had other important duties at G.H.Q. in France, but, at the end of 1915, he was gassed and invalided home.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/regimentalrollof00highiala/regimentalrollof00highiala_djvu.txt |title=Full text of "The regimental roll of honour and war record of the Artists' Rifles (1/28th, 2/28th and 3/28th battalions, the London Regiment T. F.) Commissions, promotions, appointments and rewards for service in the field obtained by members of the corps since 4th August, 1914" |publisher=Archive.org |date= |accessdate=2011-01-27}}</ref> On recovering from a severe illness he was appointed to the important post, which he held till the end of the War, of Commandant at Tidworth of the Southern Command School of Instruction for Infantry Officers, where over 14,000 Officers passed through his curriculum. He was succeeded in France by his Second-in-command, Lt. Col. Chatfeild-Clarke, who carried on until the summer of 1917. He was appointed a Military Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1915<ref>http://oldbloxhamist.bloxhamschool.com/The%20Bloxhamist/1930_07.pdf</ref> |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Old Bloxhamists]] |
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