Heathcote Hammer Military person

Major General Heathcote Howard Hammer CBE, DSO & Bar (15 February 1905 – 10 March 1961) was a senior officer in the Australian Army, seeing service during the Second World War.

Personal facts

Heathcote Hammer
Birth dateFebruary 15, 1905
Birth place
Western Australia , Australia , Southern Cross Western Australia
Date of deathMarch 10, 1961
Place of death
Australia , Victoria (Australia) , Brighton Victoria

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Military person

award
Mentioned in dispatches
Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
military operations
First Battle of El Alamein
Second Battle of El Alamein
North African Campaign
Bougainville Campaign
World War II
South West Pacific theatre of World War II
Battle of Greece
New Guinea campaign
military branch
Australian Army
military command
3rd Division
15th Brigade
2/48th Battalion
service start1926
service end1959

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Heathcote Hammer on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/second_world_war/volume.asp?levelID=67909
  2. http://www.generals.dk/general/Hammer/Heathcote_Howard/Australia.html