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Roll of Honour

Pte ​Phillip Hewett

7/16/2005

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Private Phillip Dale Rimes Hewett of 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, died from injuries sustained in hostile action on 16 July 2005, in Maysaan province, Iraq.

Service Number: 25155276

He was born on 11 August 1983 and was aged 21.

He is laid to rest in Wiggington Cemetery, Tamworth.  Plot 10335A.


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MOD Statement:

Private Phillip Hewett of 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, died from injuries sustained in hostile action on 16 July 2005, in Maysaan province, Iraq.

A patrol of three armoured Snatch Land-Rovers, in Al Amarah, was engaged by an Improvised Explosive Device in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The patrol commander Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer and his top cover sentry Private Leon Spicer were killed instantly. The driver, Private Phillip Hewett, died of his wounds at the scene whilst receiving first aid from members of the patrol.
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In a statement, Commanding Officer of the Staffordshire Regiment, Lt Col Andrew Williams, said: “The Regiment has always been a family to the soldiers that serve in it, and never more so than when deployed on complex and challenging operations such as these. The loss of 2Lt Rich Shearer, Pte Leon Spicer and Pte Phillip Hewett will be felt very deeply by all the soldiers of the Staffordshire Regiment and indeed the soldiers of Task Force Maysan. Private Hewett, aged 21, from Tamworth, was Second Lieutenant Shearer’s driver - a respected position of enormous responsibility only given to the best of senior soldiers. He was skilled as a driver of both Land-Rovers and Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicles and had been with the platoon since arriving in the 1st Battalion three years ago. A cheerful and intelligent young man with a natural air of confidence, Phillip had worked with the Platoon throughout the build-up to the deployment to Iraq and was a well established member of a very close team. His lively nature ensured he was always popular and despite just returning to Iraq from leave in England he was full of good humour and stories. Private Hewett had marked himself as having a sound future in the army and had been selected to attend a promotional course in the winter. Exceptionally fit, he was also short-listed to become a Physical Training Instructor."
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    This roll of honour is to remember those Staffords who died on deployment or operations since the end of WW2. All care has been taken to identify those soldiers using all publicly available information.

    Deployment

    All
    Aden Emergency
    Cyprus
    Cyprus Emergency
    Egypt
    Germany
    Hong Kong
    Kenya
    Korea
    Op Banner
    Op Granby
    Op Herrick
    Op Telic
    Palestine
    Scotland
    Suez Emergency

    Date

    November 2013
    June 2011
    March 2007
    July 2005
    March 2000
    August 1997
    July 1995
    May 1992
    February 1991
    September 1990
    September 1989
    August 1989
    December 1986
    May 1984
    January 1981
    June 1980
    September 1976
    October 1974
    October 1972
    November 1969
    September 1965
    December 1963
    May 1963
    January 1963
    October 1962
    December 1960
    November 1957
    April 1956
    March 1956
    October 1955
    August 1955
    July 1955
    November 1953
    September 1951
    April 1951
    January 1951
    September 1950
    June 1950
    February 1950
    December 1949
    March 1948
    February 1948
    November 1946
    June 1946

    Author

    Maintained by Robert Pritchard

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