R. P. Biddle
R. P. Biddle M.Inst.T.
1932 Assistant Marine Manager, Southern Railway. Mr. Biddle entered the service of the London and South Western Railway Company in Jersey, where his father was the Local Agent of that company until 1917. Mr. Biddle was transferred to the Marine Department at Southampton in 1907. For some years he was Personal Assistant to the Chief of the Marine Freight Department until 1914, when he was attached to the Personal Staff of the then Docks and Marine Manager (Mr. T. M. Williams, C.B.). Obtaining a commission in the Hampshire Regiment in 1915, he served with his battalion in India, and afterwards on active service with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Captain Biddle was in charge of the Embarkation Staff at Port Said when he was demobilized in 1920, and on his return to railway duty at Southampton Docks he became Chief Clerk to Major Gilbert S. Szlumper. In 1924 he became Assistant to Docks and Marine Manager, and in 1927 Assistant Marine Manager.