Richard Heumann

Captain Richard Heumann was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 9 July 1887, in Brixton, the only child of German-born leather merchant Hermann and Pauline Heumann (née Adler), of the United States. At the time of the 1911 census, Heumann was working as a clerk to his father. He attended University College School and was a pre-war territorial officer,The Times (41286), Col F, p. 10. "Fallen Officers". 30 September 1916. having been gazetted as a second lieutenant in the 2nd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regiment in 1908.The London Gazette (28181) , 29 September 1908, p. 18. Retrieved 6 October 2012. On the outbreak of war, Heumann volunteered for overseas service and went to France in January 1915.De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour 1914-24, p. 166.
Heumann died on 10 September 1916, during the Somme Offensive, after his company had been ordered forward in response to a possible German counter-attack. Before doing so, Heumann held a conference in a shell hole, in which he died when a shell exploded above it, also killing Company Serjeant Major Mills and wounding Lietenants Attenborough, Childs (fatally), and Ursell.Gray, W.E. (1929), The 2nd City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in the Great War, 1914-19, pp. 135-6. Heumann had been mentioned in dispatches in June, for "gallant and distinguished service in the field".
He is buried in an isolated grave at Faffemont, Combles.
==Notes==
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Heumann, Richard, cwgc.org. Retrievd 6 October 2012.
==External Links==
*Capt. R Heumann - Sgt Maj. 304 B Mills - Sgt 2267 A W Torrance (Photograph and further details), westernfrontassociation.com. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
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