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|image= | |name= Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé |caption= |rank=Colonel (ret'd) Count |branch= Royal Regiment of Artillery |commands= Director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France. |family= |nickname= |allegiance=Canada British |birth_date=11 June 1872 |death_date={{death-date and age|31 July 1958|11 June 1872}} |birth_place= Constance, Germany |death_place= Quebec City, Quebec |serviceyears=1892–1913 |laterwork= professor, Director of Canadian Ordnance Services |awards=CBE, }} Colonel Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé, {{post-nominals|country=CAN-cats|CBE}} (11 June 1872, in Constance, Germany – 31 July 1958, in Montreal) was a career officer in the British and Canadian army, member of the Belgian nobility, academic, and Director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France. Educationde Bury was educated in Stonyhurst College, England. He studied at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario Canada, class of 1892, student #268 where he later taught from 1905 to 1910. FamilyHe and his wife Agnes Mary Robertson (1870-1962), had two daughters Valérie (born 1899) and Joan (born 1905). The couple lived in Artillery Park, Quebec City. Military servicede Bury was commissioned into the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 4 July 1892, and promoted to lieutenant on 4 July 1895.[1] He was promoted to captain on 1 February 1900,[2] when serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery, and was stationed in Saint Lucia in 1901, where he was Garrison Adjutant from 1902-05. He was Professor of Mathematics at The Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario from 1905–10, gazetted a brevet major in 1910, and was Aide-de-camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, 1912-16. On November 19, 1910, he received Royal Licence to use the title of Count in the British Realms.[3] He retired from the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1911. He joined the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps in 1911. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a Canadian Field Artillery Brigade, Expeditionary Force during the First World War, and later became director of Canadian ordnance service in France during the First World War. He served as Director of Dominion Arsenals from 1920 to 1936. In 1936, he retired as a Colonel. He rejoined the army in 1940 and served as district ordnance officer for the duration of the Second World War and retired in 1946.[4] He was awarded a CBE.[5] He was elected president of Royal Military College Club of Canada in 1913. FamilyThe title of count had been granted to Colonel Louis-François Visart, lord of Bury and Bocarmé, by the Empress Maria-Theresa on 5 September 1753.[6] The title was later confirmed (1822) and has remained in the family ever since. The Bury estates are in the municipality of Péruwelz, province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium. Henry was the eldest son and heir of Count Robert Visart de Bury de Bocarmé (1845-1907), a Belgian nobleman, representative descendant of a distinguished family, who emigrated to Canada. His grandfather however, was the convicted and executed murderer Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (1818-1851). Count Robert Visart de Bury, of Bury in Péruwelz, Belgium and St. John, New Brunswick, a civil engineer, studied at the Episcopal College of Mecheln, in Belgium, at the University of Zurich and at the Polytechnic School of Stuttgart in Württemberg. He was employed as a civil engineer by the Orléans Railway Company and by the Government of Württemberg in the survey of the Black Forest Railway. He married Miss Simonds of St. John, New Brunswick. The couple came to New Brunswick in 1873, and lived in Portland, New Brunswick and Bury, Belgium. He served as Belgian Consul for the Province of New Brunswick and Consular Agent for France at St. John. He served as a member of the Town Council of Portland.[7] LiteratureMilitary service
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References1. ^Hart's Army list, 1901 {{Commons}}{{DEFAULTSORT:De Bury, Henry}}2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27168|page=1257|date=23 February 1900}} 3. ^Whitehall, November 19, 1910."The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Henry Robert Visart de Bury, Esquire, Captain in His Majesty's Royal Regiment of Artillery, eldest son and heir of Robert Gonzalès Dieudonné Ferdinand Visart, Count Visart de Bury and de Bocarmé, who was eldest surviving son and heir of Alfred Julien Gabriel Hippolyte Visart de Bury and de Bocarmé, who was eldest son of Marie Philippe Joseph Julien Visart Count Visart de Bury and de Bocarmé sometime Governor of the Island of Java, son of Marie Dieudonné Louis Joseph Gustave Visart, Count Visart de Bury and de Bocarmé, son of Louis François Visart Count de Bury and de Bocarmé all deceased, His Royal Licence and Authority that he and the heirs male of his body in succession (being respectively subjects of His Majesty's Realms) upon whom the title of Count de Bury and de Bocarmé shall descend may bear and use the said title of Count in this Country in the manner declared in the Letters Patent or Diploma granted by Her Majesty the Empress Maria Thérèse to the said Louis François Visart and bearing date the fifth day of September, One thousand seven hundred and fifty-three. And to Command that the said Royal concession and especial mark of Royal favour together with the said Letters Patent or Diploma be registered in the College of Arms." http://www.visart.be/robert_son_histoire.htm LG 13 Dec 1910, issue 28446 p.1. 4. ^http://www.visart.be/henri_-_5a.htm Henry de Bury 5. ^http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/QuebecHistory/encyclopedia/H.R.VisartDeBury-QuebecHistory.htm Prominent People of the Province of Quebec, 1923-24, Montreal, Biographical Society of Canada, Limited, undated and unpaginated 6. ^http://www.visart.be/robert_son_histoire.htm Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé 7. ^https://archive.org/stream/acadiensisquarte00jackuoft/acadiensisquarte00jackuoft_djvu.txt Count Robert Visart deBury 9 : 1872 births|People from Quebec City|Anglophone Quebec people|Royal Military College of Canada alumni|Royal Military College of Canada faculty|1958 deaths|Royal Artillery officers|Belgian nobility|People educated at Stonyhurst College |
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