Heneker, William Charles Giffard (1867 - 1939)
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Sir, KCMG, KCB
Description
William C. G. Heneker was a member of the Niger Coast Protectorate. Before taking part in the 1897 British Military Campaign on Benin, he participated in the campaign against King Nana as well as other Niger Coast Protectorate colonial expeditions (Hicks, 2020, 116[119]). He was the intelligence and survey officer for the 'Benin territories expedition' in 1899 (Home, 1982, 127 [126]). In... Read more
William C. G. Heneker was a member of the Niger Coast Protectorate. Before taking part in the 1897 British Military Campaign on Benin, he participated in the campaign against King Nana as well as other Niger Coast Protectorate colonial expeditions (Hicks, 2020, 116). He was the intelligence and survey officer for the 'Benin territories expedition' in 1899 (Home, 1982, 127 ).
In 1897, during the colonial expedition, he was sent by Ralph Moor to destroy the town of Udo, burn the town of 'Ugiami' and destroy and burn the camp and farms of 'Ovearwuri' (Hicks, 2020, 116). Heneker later published Bush Warfare (1906), a ‘handbook of colonial ultraviolence’ (Hicks, 2020, p.157 ), and went on to fight in the trenches in the First World War, where he was wounded (Phillips, 2021, 147).
He apparently sold at least part of his collection of looted objects to the dealers Rollin & Feuardent (from whom they were acquired by the British Museum); the full extent of his collection remains unclear (Phillips, 2021, 147).
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Soldier,Member of the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897,Collected in the fieldExternal biography links
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