Ernest Hunt
Service number
553284
Military unit
Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Royal Armoured Corps
Address
7 Spital Row, North Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.
Date of birth
Date of death
07 Apr 1943 (26 years old)
Place of birth
Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Employment, education or hobbies
Pre war Army
- Family History
- Military history
- Extra information
- Photographs
Family history
Son of Mr and Mrs E Hunt, of Newark, Nottinghamshire
Military history
Ernest Hunt joined A Squadron Sherwood Rangers in the early 1930s.
Upon the outbreak of war he went to Palestine with the Regiment in 1940 and then served as a coastal gunner during the siege of Tobruk the following year. After mechanization as a Tank Regiment he was a tank commander during the battles of Alam Halfa and el Alamein in Egypt in September and October 1942. On 6th April the 8th Army broke through at the Gabes Gap and begun to pursue the Germans north towards Tunis. Sgt Hunt was a troop leader, commanding a troop of six tanks in A Squadron killed, leading his troop in action, during the Battle of Wadi Akarit.
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Photo of Ernest Hunt