Tankred Tunstall Behrens
| Lieut. Tankred Tunstall Behrens RE | |||||||||
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| Born | 1878 | ||||||||
| Died | 1939 | ||||||||
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Royal Engineers, Anglo-German Boundary Commission, via Taveta, British East Africa 27 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, W. [1905 list] United Service Club, SW [1906] Porthlea, Porth-en-alls, Marazion, RSO, Cornwall [1911] | ||||||||
| Occupation | armed services | ||||||||
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Proposed by Capt. H. Pope-Hennessy; seconded by T.A. Joyce 1905.11.07
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Tankred Tunstall-Behrens was born in 1878, the eldest son of Louis Wilhelm Ferdinand Behrens (1847-1910) and his wife Emily (ne Tunstall, 1850-1923). Louis Behrens, a successful coffee merchant, had emigrated from Germany to London and become a British citizen before his son's birth. It was his wish that all his children should use the name Tunstall-Behrens, but in his professional career Tankred was known as Behrens, as the army authorities considered that to be the official form of his surname.
Tankred was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before being commissioned into the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieutenant in 1897 (Lieutenant 1900, Captain 1906, Major 1914, Acting Lieutenant-Colonel 1917, Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel 1920, full Lieutenant-Colonel 1922). He was on the General Staff 1906-1910, and served in France and Belgium during World War I. He retired from the army on half pay in 1926 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, but returned as garrison engineer at Shorncliffe and Lydd in 1934. He died in April 1939.
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