HEWITT, Denis Story
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Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Nottinghamshire County Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Armoured Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
14241767
Born:
Tuesday, August 14, 1917
Died:
1991
Lance Sergeant Denis Hewitt, 6 Troop, was wounded in France on the 15th August 1944.
Denis was a Police Constable residing at West Bridgford who volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 as part of the Police Intakes to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre). He re-joined the Police post war and in 1967 was Chief Inspector at the County Police Station, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts. Member of the Commando Association.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/81.
The 1939 Register covering West Bridgford.
Commando Association newsletter 45 issued Sept. 1967.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 93 issued Sept. 1991.
Deaths registered in Mansfield Notts in 1991.
[Image] Published in the Nottingham Evening Post 06 September 1943.
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