190461 2/Lt Jervis Julian Oliphant HUTCHISON, 10 Royal Hussars, RAC: 23/01/1942

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    Casualty Details | CWGC
    Jervis Julian Oliphant Hutchison
    Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
    Service No: 190461
    Date of Death: 23/01/1942
    Age: 20
    Regiment/Service: C Squadron, 10 Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
    Cemetery: BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY
    Grave Reference: 2.C.7.
    Additional Info: Son of Lieutenant-General Balfour Oliphant Hutchison, C.B., C.B.E., and Audrey Hutchison, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
    Personal Inscription: MEMOR ESTO


    Killed during a disastrous battle of 10 Royal Hussars with elements of 21 Panzer Division outside Saunnu, the first engagement of its African campaign.

    May he rest in peace.

    All the best

    Andreas
     
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    Biographies | Julian Jervis Oliphant HUTCHISON (#4737) - The Cobbold Family History Trust

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    His father : Lieutenant-General Balfour Oliphant Hutchison, C.B., C.B.E., 10th Hussars - who "commanded the 10th from 1935 to 1937 during which time they returned to England and began the process of mechanisation. In October 1937 Colonel Hutchison was promoted and appointed to the staff of the Mobile Division. He was DQMG Middle East in 1940 and was promoted to major-general on 17 Jan 1942. At the end of the war he was QMG Army HQ India, given the honorary rank of lieutenant-general and knighted as KBE in 1946. He was married to Audrey Jervis-White-Jervis on 28 Jan 1920 and lived at Rendham Court, Saxmunden, Suffolk. They had 3 sons and 2 daughters. Lieutenant-General Sir Balfour Hutchison KBE CB died on 26 April 1967."
     
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