Obituary: General Sir John Hackett, G.C.B, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.
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THE AWARD OF THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER (DSO); LT COL SIR PETER W FARQUHAR Bt – 3H
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.
Portrait: Brigadier John Van der Byl, D.S.O.
John Vander Byl (known as ‘the buff’) distinguished himself as a Squadron Leader in the Somme, 1917.
Portrait: Lieutenant Colonel I. G. Hogg, D.S.O.
The 4th Hussars went into action on 14 August 1914 three weeks after the outbreak of war.
