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Name: HUMMELL, Frederick Cornelius
Birth Date: 28 Apr 1915 Engelberg, Switzerland
Death Date: 21 Oct 2012 Guildford
Last Date: 1948
Profession: Civil servant
Married: 1. Agnes 'Nancy' Kathleen Rushforth b. 12 Aug 1916 India, d. 6 Sep 2006 Alton, Hampshire; 2. In Surrey 1961 Floriana Rosemarie Hollyer b. 1928, d. 6 Dec 2017 Guildford;
Children: 1. Antony P. (1943); Victor (d. 1945) 2. Anna; Silvia; Julia
Book Reference: Sitrep 2
War Service: KAR
School: Germany and Wadham College, Oxford
General Information:
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 638)
Arnold Grayson, International Forestry review Vol. 14 (4), 2012 My friend and former boss, Fred Hummel, died aged 97 on 21 October 2012 at his Guildford home. Fred, as he was known in the forestry world, had an unusual start in life._He was born in Switzerland. His father, a member of the Colonial forest service serving in British Honduras (now Belize), and his mother were German, both became naturalised British citizens in 1914. They were on home leave when war broke out. Due to his father's awkward situation (German family but now a British national working for the British Colonial Service) the Foreign 0ffice told him that as the war would be over within 3 months he should wait in neutral Switzerland for the duration.
ln due course Fred's parents decided he should go to an English prep school, but after a none too happy period there he was moved to a German school from which he took his university entrance examination (Abitur). So well did he do in this that when he decided to go to Oxford his college of choice, Wadham, accepted the Augsburg university's marking and he entered to read forestry. After graduation, a short stint in the Colonial forest service in Uganda (at Budongo) was cut short by the war. This led to service in East Africa as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles until 1946. In 1948 he left Kenya and joined the Forestry Commission at Farnham, Surrey. [continues with his post Kenya career]