176459 Lieutenant Hugh MacLeod SHEANE, MiD, 2nd Bn. Royal Ulster Rifles: 27/11/1944

Personal Number: 176459
Rank: Captain
Name: H MacL SHEANE, MiD
Unit: Royal Ulster Rifles


London Gazette : 22 March 1945
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36994/supplement/1561/data.pdf
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe:—
R.U. Rif.
Capt. (temp.) H. MacL. Sheane (176459).

 

London Gazette : 22 March 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36994/supplement/1548/data.pdf


https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36994/supplement/1561/data.pdf

 

Casualty Details | CWGC
LIEUTENANT HUGH MACLEOD SHEANE
Service Number: 176459
Regiment & Unit/Ship: 2nd Bn. Royal Ulster Rifles
Date of Death: 27 November 1944
Buried or commemorated at MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: III. F. 11.
Location: Netherlands

 

Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Hugh Sheane was attached to 9th British Infantry Brigade Headquarters as Senior Liaison Officer for 18 months prior to returning to 2 RUR as 2ic of Carrier platoon at the beginning of November 1944, only a few weeks before his death.

During his time with 9th Brigade HQ he co-founded "NIB News" - the weekly newsletter of 9th Infantry Brigade that continued to be produced after his death.

I've only recently realised that he was a friend of both my Mum and Dad (Lieutenant M.P. Scanlon of 2 RUR and Camp Commandant at 9th Brigade HQ) who he would have met whilst training for DDay in Hawick during 1943-44....

Quis Separabit

Obituary that was written within Quis Separabit - the regiment's official history.
"Hugh Sheane joined the Battalion in 1943 and latterly had been Senior Liaison Officer at Brigade Headquarters for a long period. He only returned to the Battalion a few weeks before his death.

In spite of this Hugh could always claim a vast friendship among the officers and men of the Battalion. The sight of him motor cycling into the Battalion area with his green forage cap perched dangerously upon his head was a much known and well loved one. Then, his sense of humour, his tolerance and forbearance made him one of the most popular officers that the Battalion and the Brigade had the good fortune to possess. His keen legal brain and his unlimited resources of patience and sympathy many times contributed towards the solution of problems and troubles of the men under his command.

As Senior Liaison Officer, Hugh was called upon to go out at all hours of the day and night, and in a Dutch winter to essay through mud, rain and sleet. Equally, nothing that the enemy could throw around him depressed Hugh nor affected his cheerful and imperturbable temperament.

The news of his death came as a great shock to large numbers of people, for Hugh, by virtue of his personality and his position was one of the best known characters in the Division. But, though the fortunes of war have removed him from our midst, nobody who had any contact with him will lose the thought and the memory of Hugh Sheane, a gallant soldier, and truly one of nature's gentlemen."

His grave has been adopted by locals at Mierlo CWGC cemetery and he is commemorated on their Facebook page here:
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