Henry de Bury
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Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé | |
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| Born | 11 June 1872 Constance, Germany |
| Died | 31 July 1958 (aged 86) |
| Allegiance | Canada British |
| Branch | Royal Regiment of Artillery |
| Service years | 1892–1913 |
| Rank | Colonel (ret'd) Count |
| Commands | Director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France. |
| Awards | CBE, |
| Other work | professor, Director of Canadian Ordnance Services |
Colonel Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé, CBE (11 June 1872, in Constance, Germany – 31 July 1958, in Montreal) was a career officer in the British and Canadian army, member of the Belgian nobility, academic, and Director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France.
De Bury was educated in Stonyhurst College, England. He studied at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario Canada, class of 1892, student #268 where he later taught from 1905 to 1910.[citation needed]
Family
He and his wife Agnes Mary Robertson (1870-1962), had two daughters Valérie (born 1899) and Joan (born 1905). The couple lived in Artillery Park, Quebec City.[citation needed][1]
Military service
De Bury was commissioned into the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 4 July 1892, and promoted to lieutenant on 4 July 1895.[2] He was promoted to captain on 1 February 1900,[3] when serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery, and was stationed in Saint Lucia in 1901, where he was Garrison Adjutant from 1902-05.[citation needed]
He was Professor of Mathematics at The Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, from 1905–10, gazetted a brevet major in 1910, and was Aide-de-camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, 1912-16.[citation needed]
On 19 November 1910, he received Royal Licence to use the title of Count in the British Realms.[4]
He retired from the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1911. He joined the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps in 1911. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a Canadian Field Artillery Brigade, Expeditionary Force during the First World War, and later became director of Canadian ordnance service in France during the First World War. He served as Director of Dominion Arsenals from 1920 to 1936. In 1936, he retired as a colonel. He rejoined the army in 1940 and served as district ordnance officer for the duration of the Second World War and retired in 1946.[5] He was awarded a CBE.[6] He was elected president of Royal Military College Club of Canada in 1913.
