Obituary: General Sir John Hackett, G.C.B, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.
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The regiment was advancing to an objective in the dark and began to lose tanks before daylight including the tanks of two of his Squadron Leaders.
John Vander Byl (known as ‘the buff’) distinguished himself as a Squadron Leader in the Somme, 1917.
The 4th Hussars went into action on 14 August 1914 three weeks after the outbreak of war.