Hazell, Peter

Operation Market Garden

Date of birth:: 1911 (Pancras/Middlesex, UK)
Date of death:: September 22nd, 1944 (Mariaheide, the Netherlands)
Buried on:: Commonwealth War Cemetery Uden
Plot: 3. Row: G. Grave: 6.
Service number:: 117191
Nationality:: British

Biography

20-01-1940: Second Lieutenant.

Major. H.Q. Airborne Troops. 658 Air Observation Post Squadron "B" Flight.

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Military Cross (MC)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Temporary Captain
Unit:: 57 Field Regiment Royal Artillery, British Army
Awarded on:: May 18th, 1943

"No. 117191 Lieut. T/Capt. P. Hazell R.A. carried out the duties of O.P. Officer with great zeal and efficiency during the BATTLE OF MEDENINE on March 6th 1943.

He was often under considerable enemy artillery fire but he continued to remain at a very exposed O.P. which had a particularly good command of the ground over which the enemy was advancing.

His accurate observation was also largely responsible for determining the strength of an enemy concentration which was forming up in an area extremely difficult to observe from all O.P.s and threatening our positions. These observations subsequently enabled the enemy concentration to be completely broken up by heavy fire from our artillery."