Hector Lawrence Mallett

Trooper · NZ #16545 · R2 Patrol

What this roll records

CWGC: Trooper Hector Lawrence Mallett, service no. 16545, New Zealand Armoured Corps (Divisional Cavalry Regt) and Long Range Desert Group. Died of wounds 24 October 1943, aged 29 (Levitha raid). Buried at Rhodes War Cemetery, grave 4.B.11, Greece. Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Killed in action, Levitha (Dodecanese), 24 October 1943. Source: Brendan O’Carroll.

New Zealand (A) Squadron, Levitha (24 Oct 1943): died of wounds, 24 Oct 1943. Source: Roll of New Zealand (A) Squadron Casualties on Levitha, Brendan O’Carroll, "The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean".

LRDG Roll of Honour (Aegean 1943): died of wounds 24.10.43, R2 Patrol. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, "The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean" (Appendix III, LRDG Roll of Honour: The Aegean Operations 1943). (master previously recorded S1 Patrol).

Spelling/rank per LRDG Roll of Honour, The Aegean Operations 1943 (Brendan O'Carroll).

The Kiwi Scorpions (Brendan O'Carroll): Tpr H. L. Mallett — lorry driver; born NZ, 3 Apr 1914; died of wounds, 24 Oct 1943.

Sting of the Scorpion (Brendan O'Carroll) — the assault on Levita: Levita, 23–24 Oct 1943: severely wounded overwhelming a machine-gun position (six prisoners taken) and later died of his wounds.

Severely wounded storming a machine-gun post on Levita and died despite the medical orderly’s efforts, 24 October 1943. Source: ‘Invasion of the Dodecanese Islands’ (Battle of Leros / Assault on Levita), Episodes & Studies Vol. 1 (NZ official war history).

Lorry driver; born NZ, 3 Apr 1914. Died of wounds, 24 Oct 1943. Source: Episodes & Studies Vol. 1 (biographical notes).

LRDG Roll of Honour, the Aegean 1943: Trooper, killed in action 24 October 1943, R2 Patrol. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean’ (Appendix III, LRDG Roll of Honour: the Aegean Operations 1943).

New Zealanders in the Levita action, 24 October 1943: died of wounds, 24 October 1943. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Kiwi Scorpions’ (Appendix IX, New Zealanders in the Levita action).

Truck driver in civilian life. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

Embarkation detail from his Cenotaph record: he embarked as Trooper, 2nd Divisional Cavalry Regiment. This agrees with the rank held on this card. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph, record C28951.

Cenotaph record linked. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

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