Ernest Huddleston was later Shipping Surveyor and Adviser to the High Commissioner for India and ADC to the Viceroy.
10 Facts About Ernest Huddleston
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Ernest Whiteside Huddleston was born in 1874 at Murree in the Punjab.
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Ernest Huddleston then joined the Royal Indian Marine initially serving in the Egyptian Campaign.
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Ernest Huddleston took the Officer's course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and in 1897 was in the troopship, Warren Hastings, when she was wrecked at sea off the coast of Mauritius.
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Ernest Huddleston served in the China Expedition against the Boxer Rising.
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Ernest Huddleston was promoted to captain in 1918 and was presidency port officer of Madras before being appointed deputy director of the Royal Indian Marine in 1924 and officiating director for some months in 1925.
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Ernest Huddleston then served in the Indian Civil Service as shipping surveyor and adviser to the High Commissioner for India in London.
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Ernest Huddleston was at one point aide-de-camp to the Viceroy, Lord Reading.
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Ernest Huddleston was placed on the retired list of the Royal Navy in 1934 and was knighted in 1939.
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On 4 August 1904, Ernest Huddleston married Elsie Barlow-Smith; they'd met in Bedford as school children.