Educated at
Repton School and at the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Reginald Hewetson was
commissioned into the
Royal Artillery in 1928. He served in India from 1929 to 1935. In 1942 he served in the
Tunisian campaign as a
General Staff Officer (GSO) with the
lines of communication of the
British First Army, before being made a GSO Grade 1 (with the
78th Infantry Division, also serving with the First Army in the fighting in Tunisia. The division later fought in the
Allied invasion of Sicily in July–August 1943 but Hewetson left to take command of the
121st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, then
fighting in Italy, before then assuming command of the 6th Field Regiment, also fighting in Italy, sometime in 1944. He returned again to the 78th Division, this time as the division's
Commander, Royal Artillery. Once again, his stay was short as he was soon sent to
X Corps as its Brigadier General Staff (BGS), a position he held until then end of the war in 1945. He lived in
Uckfield,
East Sussex. in the
Bombay Quadrangular in 1929. ==Family==