John Holmes Jellett | |
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Born | 1905 |
Died | 1971 |
Nationality | British |
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 from October 1945 to February 1946 he was Superintending Civil Engineer, HM Dockyard, Chatham. From 1946-48 he was Deputy Docks Engineer, Southern Railway, Southampton Docks. After nationalisation of the railway companies he was Docks Engineer, Southampton Docks, British Transport Commission from 1948-58 and he was Chief Docks Engineer, Southampton Docks from 1958 until his retirement in 1966.
He also acted as an occasional advisor within the [Engineer and Railway Staff Corps]], he was promoted to Major of that corps on 3 July 1957.[7] 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.[8] He authored the Harbours and Sea Works article entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica.[9] He lived in Southampton in Hampshire, from 1946 until his death in 1971.
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Preceded by Hubert Shirley-Smith |
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers November 1968 – November 1969 |
Succeeded by Angus Fulton |