John Henry Hamlyn Whitty DSO MC (4 February 1910 – 23 October 1944) was an Australian-born English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
[2] After leaving Clifton, he decided upon a career in the British Army, but was placed on the Supplementary Reserve, where he held the rank of second lieutenant.
He accepted a commission into the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment as a lieutenant in February 1931, having been on the Supplementary Reserve.
[8] At the outbreak of the Second World War, Whitty was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force, as part of the 132nd Infantry Brigade.
During his service in North Africa he was placed in command of the 5th (Territorial Battalion) within the West Kent Regiment, at which point he was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel.
[1] Within one month of being posted to Italy, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order during an attack on Romagnoli in November 1943,[9] in which he led from the front while being exposed to significant enemy fire.