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Sybil Hester (Haggie) Thompson           1912-1999
Sybil Hester was born on 23 February 1912, the daughter of William Haggie and Sybil Clark Thompson. After divorcing Frederick, she married Paul Hubert Devas Dessain.
Paul Hubert Devas Dessain                     1909-1998         (2nd Husband)
Paul was born on 26 February 1909, and educated at the Oratory School, Reading, and Sandhurst. He was commissioned in 1929, and served in anti-riot operations in Palestine the same year, and was then posted to Shanghai, where he was attached to the Shanghai Defence Force. During that period, he traveled up the Yangtze by naval boat, a trip no longer possible. After service in India, He returned to Palestine in 1938, on internal security duties. In 1940 he was a Captain, commanding an anti-tank company of the Green Howards near Kjorem, Norway. He was awarded an MC for an act of gallantry in that campaign.
After Norway, his career was interrupted by tuberculosis, but after recovery he held various staff appointments, and became an instructor at the Staff College, Camberly, from 1942 to 1944. After further staff appointments - including Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office from 1945 to 		  1948 - he was Assistant Military Secretary in Western Command from 1948 to 1951.
He was Military Attache in Rome from 1952 to 1955, after which he was appointed OBE. He was then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Intelligence Division of SHAPE, until 1957.
Colonel Dessain left the Army in 1959, and worked for a time in the printing industry, then became export sales manager for Rylands Wire Drawers (a subsidiary of Lancashire Steel) in Warrington. He retired in 1963.
He was a good linguist, and qualified as an interpreter in French and German. A keen sportsman, he was secretary of the Cheshire Polo Club, and a useful golfer.
He married Sybil Hester Haggie (nee Thompson) in 1947.
All the above information was extracted from his obituary, published in The Daily Telegraph, on 17 February 1999.
They had the following children:
  Giles William Charles No Date    
Mark No Date    
Simon James Francis No Date   Married Frederica Mary Catharina Day

Birth
Paul Hubert Devas Dessain b: 26 Feb 1909

Sybil Hester Haggie b: 23 Feb 1912  c: 1 Apr 1912                 Christ Church, Bishopwearmouth
daughter of William Haggie and Sybil Clark Thompson, Seaforth, Ropemaker

Marriage
1947
Paul Hubert Devas Dessain
Sybil Hester Thompson (35)

Father: William Haggie

Children
Giles William Charles Dessain No Date 
son of Paul Hubert Devas Dessain and Sybil Hester Thompson
Mark Dessain No Date 
son of Paul Hubert Devas Dessain and Sybil Hester Thompson
Simon James Francis Dessain No Date 
son of Paul Hubert Devas Dessain and Sybil Hester Thompson

Death
Paul Hubert Devas Dessain Died 24 Dec 1998 Age 89


Read the extended Obituary notice of Colonel Paul Hubert Devas Dessain.

Summary of the Will
of Paul Hubert Devas Dessain
of Shaw House, Utkinton, Tarporley,
Cheshire		 1909 - 1998       Dated 28 January 1982
(His estate totaled £ 355,527.00)
Trustees and Executors:  my wife, Sybil Hester Dessain,
Dominic Charles Christopher Thompson
and my son Giles William Charles Dessain
My Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund upon trust, to pay the income to my wife, during her life,
and subject thereto upon trust for each of my Sons, Giles, Mark, and Simon, as survive me,
and if more than one, in equal shares.
Codicil to the above will Dated 8 September 1987
Replace the above statement, with:
My Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund upon trust, for such of my Sons, Giles, Mark, and Simon,
as survive me, and if more than one, in equal shares.

Death
Sybil Hester (Thompson) Dessain Died 9 Sept 1999