Henry Newman Hutchinson
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Son of Daisy Hutchinson, High Street, Sutton on Trent; husband of Rose Lily Hutchinson nee Burrell, of Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. No father listed on the birth certificate but both parents are registered as alive on the 1921 census, with Daisy living at her fathers address William Greenhoe Hutchinson, at High Street, Sutton on Trent along with her daughter Violet Mary Hutchinson. Ernest Brunyee 27 disabled soldier, Lily Brunyee 27 (presumedly her sister) and their daughter Cissie Patricia Daisy Brunyee 9 Months.
joined A squadron as a Trooper in 1934 and had risen through the ranks to Squadron Sergeant Major. Serving in Palestine and at Tobruk, by 1945 he was one of the few remaining originals of A Squadron. Awarded the Military Medal for rescuing wounded tank-crews at Alamein, driving a jeep even after being wounded himself, the jeep later took a direct hit again wounding SSM Hutchinson and severely wounding another soldier with him, who lost both legs. Landed on D Day fighting through France, 12/6/1944 his Sherman Firefly was hit by a Panther, injuring 3 crew, 1 who died later. Fighting continued through the Netherlands and across into Germany. 28/3/1945, A Squadron was sent to support the Gordon Highlanders in actions around the town of Isselburg, Germany. Crossing the Aa and heading for Dinxperlo the flat flood plains were saturated and the tanks had to use the raised road ways that had been mined. An Essex Yeomanry tank hit a mine, SSM Hutchinson dismounted and walked ahead of the tanks to navigate a path through the mines but unfortunately either he stood on a mine in a verge, or the tank he was next to hit a mine and Sgt Hutchinson was killed by the explosion. SSM. Hutchinson was originally buried at Speldorf, being reinterred 8/10/1946 at Reichswald Park Cemetery, Kleve, Germany.
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