Individual Details
Lt Owen Robin Templer Henman DSC MRNVR
(9 Sep 1911 - 25 May 1946)
Navy List from 1940 to 1945
Photocopy of an ms letter (2pp, plus envelope), dated 27 December 1941, written to his sister in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya but eventually delivered to her in Ceylon, when he was commanding, as an officer in the Malayan RNVR, the naval auxiliary vessel HMS SHUN AU during the Malayan campaign and referring briefly to his ship’s deployment somewhere on the coast of Malaya and their determination to give the Japanese ‘a hot time of it’ if they were attacked, their Christmas celebrations and his sadness at ‘…this happy country being attacked and partly overrun… but perhaps without knowing it we were all much too contented and easy going in the past…’ Henman was a prisoner of war in Sumatra from 1942 to 1945 and died a year after his liberation.
Photocopy of an ms letter (2pp, plus envelope), dated 27 December 1941, written to his sister in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya but eventually delivered to her in Ceylon, when he was commanding, as an officer in the Malayan RNVR, the naval auxiliary vessel HMS SHUN AU during the Malayan campaign and referring briefly to his ship’s deployment somewhere on the coast of Malaya and their determination to give the Japanese ‘a hot time of it’ if they were attacked, their Christmas celebrations and his sadness at ‘…this happy country being attacked and partly overrun… but perhaps without knowing it we were all much too contented and easy going in the past…’ Henman was a prisoner of war in Sumatra from 1942 to 1945 and died a year after his liberation.
Events
| Birth | 9 Sep 1911 | Tangalla, Southern, Ceylon | |||
| Military | Jan 1937 | Date of enlistment | |||
| Military service | Bet 1939 and 1945 | WW2 | |||
| Military | 1939 - 1945 | Age: 28; Rank: Lieutenant; Regiment: Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve | |||
| Military | May 1942 - Aug 1945 | Lt MRNVR (Malaysian RNVR) POW - Malaysia | |||
| Marriage | Abt Mar 1946 | Chichester, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - Pamela Claudine "Susan" Rayne | |||
| Death | 25 May 1946 | WWII GWGC - Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia |
Families
| Spouse | Pamela Claudine "Susan" Rayne (1914 - 1999) |
| Father | Owen Walter Henman (1876 - 1945) |
| Mother | Gertrude Marguerite Templer (1876 - 1948) |
| Sibling | Myrtle Templer Henman (1908 - 1994) |
| Sibling | Walter James Henman (1915 - 1994) |