Personal Number: 194120 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Hugh Stuart WHITEHILL, OBE, MiD Unit: 23 Hussars London Gazette : 15 July 1941 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35218/supplement/4056/data.pdf EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS (CADETS). ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS. The undermentioned Cadets, from O.C.T.U.'s, to be 2nd Lts. 28th June 1941:— 23rd H. Hugh Stuart WHITEHILL (194120). London Gazette : 10 May 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37072/supplement/2456/data.pdf The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe:— 23rd H. Lt.-Col. (actg.) H. S. Whitehill (194120). London Gazette : 11 October 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37302/supplement/4991/data.pdf The KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for .the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of gallant and distinguished services hi North-West Europe:— To be Additional Officers of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order: — Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Hugh Stuart WHITEHILL (194120), 23rd Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps (Liverpool).
London Gazette : 10 May 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37072/supplement/2456/data.pdf
Recommendation for Award for Whitehill, Hugh Stuart Rank: Temporary Lieutenant... | The National Archives Reference: WO 373/85/142 Name Whitehill, Hugh Stuart Rank: Temporary Lieutenant Colonel Service No: 194120 Regiment: Royal Armoured Corps Theatre of Combat or Operation: North-West Europe 1944-1945 Award: Order of the British Empire Date of announcement in London Gazette: 11 October 1945
Hugh Stuart Whitehill Birth: 21 May 1907 in Liverpool, Lancashire Marriage: 1936 in Liverpool (8 children) Death: Jun 1990 in Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Pre-war career 3764394 Pte. Hugh Stuart WHITEHILL 6th Battalion Kings (Liverpool) Regiment (T.A.) Enlists in the Royal Tank Regiment 23.9.1925 (6/6) age 19 years 4 months (added one year to his age) at Liverpool Posted to 13/18 Hussars Car Depot 23.9.1925 13/18 Hussars 26.1.1926 510 (vii) K.R. 22.9.1937 Reenlists in the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (T.A.) 10.3.1938 Published on the cover of the Western Mail 1st July 1944 B6149 Sgt. Midgeley No.5 A.F.P.S. I.W.M. Collections