Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Service Number: 90173
Regiment: Royal Corps of Signals
Commanding 6th Airborne Division Signals.
Died: 22nd July 1944
Age: 34 years old.
Son of Frederick and Hypatia C. Smallman-Tew.
Husband of Mary G. Smallman-Tew, of Pyrford, Surrey.
Some weeks after the landings, Lieutenant Colonel Smallman-Tew, although wounded in the arm by a piece of shrapnel, elected to remain at duty and took it upon himself to take a newly joined officer, Lieutenant Mutch, to his Brigade Signal Section (K) at Le Mesnil. On 22 July 1944, on the journey by airborne jeep, Lieutenant Colonel Smallman-Tew, Lieutenant Mutch and their driver were killed when a German mortar shell hit their vehicle near Escoville.
(source: courtesy of paradata)
Service Number: 90173
Regiment: Royal Corps of Signals
Commanding 6th Airborne Division Signals.
Died: 22nd July 1944
Age: 34 years old.
Son of Frederick and Hypatia C. Smallman-Tew.
Husband of Mary G. Smallman-Tew, of Pyrford, Surrey.
Some weeks after the landings, Lieutenant Colonel Smallman-Tew, although wounded in the arm by a piece of shrapnel, elected to remain at duty and took it upon himself to take a newly joined officer, Lieutenant Mutch, to his Brigade Signal Section (K) at Le Mesnil. On 22 July 1944, on the journey by airborne jeep, Lieutenant Colonel Smallman-Tew, Lieutenant Mutch and their driver were killed when a German mortar shell hit their vehicle near Escoville.
(source: courtesy of paradata)
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Service Number: 90173
Regiment: Royal Corps of Signals
Commanding 6th Airborne Division Signals.
Died: 22nd July 1944
Age: 34 years old.
Son of Frederick and Hypatia C. Smallman-Tew.
Husband of Mary G. Smallman-Tew, of Pyrford, Surrey.
Some weeks after the landings, Lieutenant Colonel Smallman-Tew, although wounded in the arm by a piece of shrapnel, elected to remain at duty and took it upon himself to take a newly joined officer, Lieutenant Mutch, to his Brigade Signal Section (K) at Le Mesnil. On 22 July 1944, on the journey by airborne jeep, Lieutenant Colonel Smallman-Tew, Lieutenant Mutch and their driver were killed when a German mortar shell hit their vehicle near Escoville.
(source: courtesy of paradata)
Service Number: 90173
Regiment: Royal Corps of Signals
Commanding 6th Airborne Division Signals.
Died: 22nd July 1944
Age: 34 years old.
Son of Frederick and Hypatia C. Smallman-Tew.
Husband of Mary G. Smallman-Tew, of Pyrford, Surrey.
Some weeks after the landings, Lieutenant Colonel Smallman-Tew, although wounded in the arm by a piece of shrapnel, elected to remain at duty and took it upon himself to take a newly joined officer, Lieutenant Mutch, to his Brigade Signal Section (K) at Le Mesnil. On 22 July 1944, on the journey by airborne jeep, Lieutenant Colonel Smallman-Tew, Lieutenant Mutch and their driver were killed when a German mortar shell hit their vehicle near Escoville.
(source: courtesy of paradata)
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