- SURNAME
Otway
- FORENAME
Terence Brandram Hastings
- UNIT
9 Bn
- RANK
Captain (T/Major) (A/Lieutenant Colonel)
- NUMBER
63633
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order, Legion dHonneur (Fr)
- PLACE
Normandy 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 15.6.1914 Cairo,Egypt
educated Dover College
RMC Sandhurst
2 Bn Royal Ulster Rifles 1933-34 (2Lt)
1 Bn Royal Ulster Rifles 1935-40 (Lt-Cap)
31 Independent Reconnaissance Squadron 1940 (Major)
Brigade Major,156 Infantry Brigade 1942
Military Operations Directorate,War Office 1942
Staff College,Camberley
1 Bn Royal Ulster Rifles 1943 (Major)
9 Bn Parachute Regiment 1943 (2IC) (Major)
9 Bn Parachute Regiment 1944-45 (C.O.) (LtCol)
WIA 6.6.1944 Normandy
King's Regiment (Liverpool) (Bn C.O.) 1945
staff appointments,India and England
resigned commission 1948
Colonial Development Corporation
married Stella Whitehead 1939 (1 son) (dissolved)
married 2nd briefly
married 3rd Jean Walker
died 23.7.2006
NATIONAL ARCHIVES:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9051692
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