John Holmes Jellett
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| John Holmes Jellett | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Nationality | British |
| Birth date | 1905 |
| Date of death | 1971 |
| Work | |
| Engineering Discipline | Civil |
| Institution memberships | Institution of Civil Engineers (president), Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers (first class member) |
| Significant projects | Mulberry Harbour |
John Holmes Jellett OBE, DSc, MA (1905–1971) was a British civil engineer.[1][2]
Jellett was appointed assistant civil engineer to the Admiralty on 22 June 1933.[3] He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War and was commissioned as a Temporary Captain.[4] His engineering talents were called upon during the Invasion of Normandy where he was made Superintending Civil Engineer of Mulberry Harbour B, a temporary concrete harbour built at Arromanches.[5] Mulberry B was in use for five months following the invasion and landed two million men, half a million vehicles and four million tons of supplies for the Liberation of Europe.[6]
In recognition of Jellett's work with the Mulberry harbour he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (military division) on 28 November 1944.[4] His citation in the London Gazette referred to his "distinguished service in operations which led to the successful landing of allied forces in Normandy".[4] After the war he worked as a director of the Anglo Dutch Dredging Company at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, a post he held from 1946 to 1966.[7]
Jellett continued his service to the military by acting as an unpaid technical advisor to the army through membership of the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, he was promoted to Major of that corps on 3 July 1957.[8] In 1966 he was elected a first class engineer member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers.[1] Jellett served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1968 to November 1969.[9] He authored the Harbours and Sea Works article entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica.[7] By 1971 he was living in Southampton in Hampshire, dying later that year.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. Thomas Telford Ltd. pp. p173. ISBN 0727715267. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ybXHDw8u_VcC.
- ^ ICE Presidential address
- ^ London Gazette: no. 33958, p. 4569, 7 July 1933. Retrieved on 2008-08-22.
- ^ a b c London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 36815, p. 5453, 28 November 1944. Retrieved on 2008-08-22.
- ^ Kings College archives
- ^ History of the Mulberry Harbours
- ^ a b Encyclopaedia Britannica author entry
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41114, p. 3951, 2 July 1957. Retrieved on 2008-08-22.
- ^ Watson, Garth (1988). The Civils. Thomas Telford. pp. p254. ISBN 0-727-70392-7.
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| Preceded by Hubert Shirley-Smith |
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers November 1968 – November 1969 |
Succeeded by Angus Fulton |
