Dunbrack Family History - Person Sheet
NameWing Commander William Vincent Dumbreck 
Birth1 Jul 1893, Liverpool, England
Death2 Apr 1967, Hadlow Kent Age: 73
FatherWilliam Dumbreck (1866-1937)
MotherAnne Brannan (1869-1957)
Misc. Notes
The original family tree of the Orton branch of Dumbreck was researched by Wm and drawn up ''during the war and afterwards'' on visits to New Register House, Edinburgh.
Obituary for Mr W Dumbreck (Hadlow)
Newspaper clipping found in Jean Harper's effects. (possibly the local paper- undated, but with another clipping which says much the same - from the Tonbridge Free Press.
Local historian, Mr William Dumbreck of James House, Hadlow, died recently at the age of 73. He had been ill for some time.
The funeral service on Thursday of last week at Hadlow Parish Church was followed by interment at Hadlow cemetery.
Mr Dumbreck was well know in the Hadlow area and performed many services for the village. One of his recent tasks was to discover the names of fields so that now roads could be named after them.
He trained as a chartered accountant but , in 1911, enlisted in the Liverpool Scottish Regiment. He went to France in 1914, was wounded and rejoined his battalion in 1915.
Commissioned in 1917, he joined the Indian Army, retiring as a captain in 1923.
Mr Dumbreck studied agriculture at Cirencester and then took up hop and fruit farming in Kent, making his home in Hadlow, where he married in 1924.
He joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in 1938 and during the Second World War commanded squadrons in London, Glasgow, Manchester and Kent.
He was later seconded to the Army and served in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
He returned to Hadlow and resumed farming in 1946. He was director and chairman of Kent Hop Fruit and Stock Farms Ltd.
Mr Dumbreck was a marksman of note and represented India at Bizley until 1938. More recently he shot for Kent in inter-county matches and Scotland in national matches. He was chairman of the Kent County Rifle Association between 1951 and 1962.
He was a former member and chairman of the Upper Medway Internal Drainage Board and a member of the Kent River Board.
A lot of his time since 1945 was spent on local history, especially at Hadlow, and he was a member of the council of Kent Archaeological Societies.
He leaves a widow , a son who is a commander in the Navy and a daughter who is married and lives in Australia.
Obituary for Mr W Dumbreck (Hadlow)
Newspaper clipping found in Jean Harper's effects. (possibly the local paper- undated, but with another clipping which says much the same - from the Tonbridge Free Press.
Local historian, Mr William Dumbreck of James House, Hadlow, died recently at the age of 73. He had been ill for some time.
The funeral service on Thursday of last week at Hadlow Parish Church was followed by interment at Hadlow cemetery.
Mr Dumbreck was well know in the Hadlow area and performed many services for the village. One of his recent tasks was to discover the names of fields so that now roads could be named after them.
He trained as a chartered accountant but , in 1911, enlisted in the Liverpool Scottish Regiment. He went to France in 1914, was wounded and rejoined his battalion in 1915.
Commissioned in 1917, he joined the Indian Army, retiring as a captain in 1923.
Mr Dumbreck studied agriculture at Cirencester and then took up hop and fruit farming in Kent, making his home in Hadlow, where he married in 1924.
He joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in 1938 and during the Second World War commanded squadrons in London, Glasgow, Manchester and Kent.
He was later seconded to the Army and served in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
He returned to Hadlow and resumed farming in 1946. He was director and chairman of Kent Hop Fruit and Stock Farms Ltd.
Mr Dumbreck was a marksman of note and represented India at Bizley until 1938. More recently he shot for Kent in inter-county matches and Scotland in national matches. He was chairman of the Kent County Rifle Association between 1951 and 1962.
He was a former member and chairman of the Upper Medway Internal Drainage Board and a member of the Kent River Board.
A lot of his time since 1945 was spent on local history, especially at Hadlow, and he was a member of the council of Kent Archaeological Societies.
He leaves a widow , a son who is a commander in the Navy and a daughter who is married and lives in Australia.