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Geoffrey Walter Hewett was born at Hampstead in London on 19 July 1910, the son of Rose (née Alderton) and Walter Hewett, a solicitor. He was educated at Mr A. North’s School at Warren Hill, Eastbourne, and then at Clifton College from 1924 to 1928 where he played for his house and the school 2nd cricket XI. Geoffrey Hewett entered Worcester College on 11 October 1929, and was a member of the College Cricket XI, and the Oxford University Officer Training Corps. He achieved 3rd class honours in Modern History in 1932 and subsequently became a solicitor with his father’s firm of Devonshire, Wreford, Brown, Hewett, Baggallay & Co. On the 30 May 1932 he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 63rd (6th London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) and he was promoted to Captain on 19 March 1938. That year he married Frances Lodge.
Geoffrey Hewett was mobilised on the outbreak of war and went with his unit to France in November 1939. Major Geoffrey Hewett was killed by artillery fire on 27 May 1940 at Ploegsteert Wood in Belgium during the retreat to the coast. He was 29 years old.
Geoffrey Hewett is buried in Bedford House Cemetery in Belgium and commemorated on the war memorials at Clifton College and Worcester College, Oxford.