Here we have C. O. [Charles Owen] Hezlet. What is not stated is that he was entitled to add D.S.O. to the end of that name, a medal he won during his time in the Antrim Royal Garrison Artillery, where he was a Lieutenant/Acting Major - as well, possibly, as M.C., for during his time in the Royal Artillery, during the Second World War, he appears to have won the Military Cross. But it seems, like many disillusioned ex servicemen, that he associated the medals with pain and suffering and did not want to remember them or have them hanging around his person, either literally or figuratively. And given the fact that he was Irish, there could have been political reasons too.
Golfing was in his blood, his parents were captains of Royal Portrush and his sisters very talented players. He was actually runner up in the 1924 Amateur Championship.
After the war he resumed his golfing and appeared in the Walker Cup Team three times.
This card comes from artwork by H. H. Harris, a very interesting character whose first name was Herbert. He was a poster artist and his big claim to fame, or rather to infamy, was to design the advertisement with a pyjama clad man clinging to the neck of a Bovril jar. Unfortunately it was released just months before the news of the Titanic sinking, and then withdrawn. It was mothballed for eight more years as well.
He also illustrated books for children and on sporting subjects, and reputedly it was his illustrations for a golfing volume which got him this commission from Wills, as well as a follow up, "Lawn Tennis 1931".
During the Second World War he toured round the airbases in a caravan sketching portraits of service personnel raising money for the RAF Comforts Fund. You can see him at work at the Mary Evans Picture Library
This set was first reported in our original Wills Reference Book, part four as large sized cards, measuring 79 x 62 m/m. They were replaced in November 1930 by "Beautiful Homes", a set of 25 large cards.