PARAS Otway, Terence Brandram Hastings

[John Robertson]

• 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 ​

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