Reginald Hewetson

General Sir Reginald Hackett Hewetson, (4 August 1908 – 19 January 1993) was a senior British Army officer and a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.

Military career 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 Hewetson married Patricia Burkitt.