Lieutenant-Colonel C A Henn-Collins, CEng, FIEE, FIERE served in the Second World War, notably, in the Polish Campaign under General Carton de Wiart. After the war Henn-Collins was a prolific inventor, including the first transistorised quartz clock.
Born in 1915, Christopher Henn-Collins was the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Richard Henn-Collins, CMG, DSO, and grandson of Lord Collins, Master of the Rolls from 1901 to 1907. He was edu...
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Lieutenant-Colonel C A Henn-Collins, CEng, FIEE, FIERE served in the Second World War, notably, in the Polish Campaign under General Carton de Wiart. After the war Henn-Collins was a prolific inventor, including the first transistorised quartz clock.
Born in 1915, Christopher Henn-Collins was the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Richard Henn-Collins, CMG, DSO, and grandson of Lord Collins, Master of the Rolls from 1901 to 1907. He was educated at Shrewsbury, and destined for a military career in his father's regiment, but pleaded to be allowed to pursue his boyhood ambition to be a telecommunications engineer. In 1934 he enlisted as a Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich for signals training and was commissioned in 1935.
Main article Invasion of Poland (1939)
After service in Palestine he earned the dubious distinction of being possibly the first serving officer to come under enemy fire in the first few hours of the second World War. In August 1939, when...
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