H. Dormer Legge

Major Harold Dormer Legge TD (21 October 1890 – 1982) was a British Army officer and philatelist.

Born in Ringmer, Sussex, he was the eldest child and only son of William Heneage Legge, a doctor, and Alice Mary Fawcus. He had four younger sisters.

Legge was educated at Hurstpierpoint College.

H. Dormer Legge married Grace Emma La Trobe (1889-1976).

On 11 Febraury 1915, Legge was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. On 6 February 1926, Legge, a Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, transferred to the 19th London Regiment ^[1]. He rose to the rank of Major.

Philately

In 1948, Major H. Dormer Legge published the first definitive study of the Kangaroo and Map stamps, issued from 1913-45, and it is still in use today. He also published other works on Australian stamps.

Publications

• H. Dormer Legge - "The Kangaroo issues of Australian Stamps", Orlo Smith & Co, Melbourne, 1948.
• H. Dormer Legge - "The 1913 Penny Kangaroo of Australia" Stamley Gibbons, London, 1980.
• H. Dormer Legge - "Commonwealth of Australia. The Line engraved issues of 1914, - and the essays, die and plate proofs of the Georgian 1d", Orlo Smith & Co, Melbourne, 1950.

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