Service Number: 1030
Unit: New Zealand Armoured Corps, Divisional Cavalry Regiment
Next of Kin: Mr William Joseph Hewson (father), 168 Sealey Street, Thames, New Zealand
Occupation on Enlistment: Labourer
Sergeant Hewson and a Free French Officer, Colonel Jean Colonna d'Ornano, were the only fatal casualties in a Long Range Desert Group raid on a fort at Murzuk, Libya. Shot while standing to fix a jammed Vickers gun.They were initially buried side by side at Murzuk. Later buried at Tripoli. AWMM
His brother William Selwyn Hewson is buried in Aleppo War Cemetery, Syria.
Son of William Joseph and Laura Mabel Hewson (Nee Coldicutt) of Auckland, NZ
Unit: New Zealand Armoured Corps, Divisional Cavalry Regiment
Next of Kin: Mr William Joseph Hewson (father), 168 Sealey Street, Thames, New Zealand
Occupation on Enlistment: Labourer
Sergeant Hewson and a Free French Officer, Colonel Jean Colonna d'Ornano, were the only fatal casualties in a Long Range Desert Group raid on a fort at Murzuk, Libya. Shot while standing to fix a jammed Vickers gun.They were initially buried side by side at Murzuk. Later buried at Tripoli. AWMM
His brother William Selwyn Hewson is buried in Aleppo War Cemetery, Syria.
Son of William Joseph and Laura Mabel Hewson (Nee Coldicutt) of Auckland, NZ
Service Number: 1030
Unit: New Zealand Armoured Corps, Divisional Cavalry Regiment
Next of Kin: Mr William Joseph Hewson (father), 168 Sealey Street, Thames, New Zealand
Occupation on Enlistment: Labourer
Sergeant Hewson and a Free French Officer, Colonel Jean Colonna d'Ornano, were the only fatal casualties in a Long Range Desert Group raid on a fort at Murzuk, Libya. Shot while standing to fix a jammed Vickers gun.They were initially buried side by side at Murzuk. Later buried at Tripoli. AWMM
His brother William Selwyn Hewson is buried in Aleppo War Cemetery, Syria.
Son of William Joseph and Laura Mabel Hewson (Nee Coldicutt) of Auckland, NZ
Unit: New Zealand Armoured Corps, Divisional Cavalry Regiment
Next of Kin: Mr William Joseph Hewson (father), 168 Sealey Street, Thames, New Zealand
Occupation on Enlistment: Labourer
Sergeant Hewson and a Free French Officer, Colonel Jean Colonna d'Ornano, were the only fatal casualties in a Long Range Desert Group raid on a fort at Murzuk, Libya. Shot while standing to fix a jammed Vickers gun.They were initially buried side by side at Murzuk. Later buried at Tripoli. AWMM
His brother William Selwyn Hewson is buried in Aleppo War Cemetery, Syria.
Son of William Joseph and Laura Mabel Hewson (Nee Coldicutt) of Auckland, NZ
Inscription
1030 Serjeant C.D. Hewson, N.Z. Divisional Calvary Regiment
ATTD. Long Range Desert Group, 11th January 1941, Age 32
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