James Percy Tufnell Burchell
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| Born | 1898 | ||||||||
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Fawke House, Sevenoaks, Kent 32 St Mary's Mansions, Paddington [1923] 30 Southwick Street, Hyde Park, W2 [1927] | ||||||||
| Occupation | armed services | ||||||||
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Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1921.04.26 proposed by C.H. Read, seconded by Arthur Keith
1927.12.20 It was reported that Dr E. Finlay and Mr J.P. Burchell had asked leave to withdraw their resignations, after some discussion as to the advisability of enforcing another entrance fee, it was resolved to accept the withdrawal
Notes From Elsewhere
James Percy Tufnell Burchell was born in London on the 9th May 1898 and was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, his qualifications in foreign languages were French and German. He was first Commissioned into the Welsh Guards on the 13th October 1916, and was first of all posted to the Household Battalion where he qualified as a Signals Officer on the 18th May 1917. He attended the London District School of Signalling in January 1917 and in February 1917 attended the Dunstable School of Signalling.
On the 19th May Lieutenant Burchell was posted to France, from the time of his arrival he become employed with the B.E.F. Section where he remained until joining the 1st Signals Battalion Welsh Guards on the 21 March 1918.
Lieutenant Burchell remained with the Battalion until the 13 May 1918 when he was attached to Headquarters 3rd Guards Brigade for duties with the Army Signals Service.
He was awarded the Military Cross of conspicuous gallantry & devotion to duty on the 5th and 6th November 1918, at and around Arnfroipret. As Brigade Signals Officer he maintained communications with the Battalions throughout. The enemy continuously shelled the roads down which his main line of communications ran, and although they were frequently broken by shellfire, he immediately got them re-laid and restored.
On the October 1919 Lieutenant Burchell returned to the United Kingdom and was demobilized on the 11th November 1919. Between the wars he was employed by the Tax Commissioners and become Assistant Clerk to Commissioners for Taxes, Holborn. He also become a Fellow of the Society of the Antiquarian of London.
On the 1st February 1935 he was enrolled as a Member of the Officers Emergency Reserve, 4 years later, on the 18th September 1939 he was granted an Emergency Commission back in the Welsh Guards to be Second Lieutenant and posted to the Training Battalion. A few days later he received the rank of Lieutenant and in December 1939 received the rank of Captain.
He remained with the Training Battalion and was stationed at Sandown Park, Esher throughout the Second World War. He retired as an Acting Major on the 7th July 1945.
Publications
External Publications
The early Mousterian implements of Sligo, Ireland by J. P. T Burchell
Palaeolithic man in North-west Ireland by James Percy Tufnell Burchell
The northfleet 50-foot submergence later than the Coombe Rock of post-early mousterian times by J. P. T Burchell
The implementiferous deposits of the Lower Thames Valley and of East Anglia by J. P. T Burchell
Mr. Warren's views on flaking by J. P. T Burchell
A temperate bed of the last Inter-glacial period at Northfleet, Kent by J. P. T Burchell
A note on two objects found among tombs of the old kingdom at El Kab by J. P. T Burchell
A final note on the Ebbsfleet Channel series by J. P. T Burchell
Upper Palaeolithic pottery from Ipswich and Swanscombe by J. P. T Burchell
House Publications
30. The Implementiferous Deposits of the Lower Thames Valley and of East Anglia; by J. P. T. Burchell and J. Reid Moir. Man Vol. 33 (Feb., 1933)
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