243175 Capt. Dennis Edward "Daddy" Waight MC.British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers from:London My father, Colonel Dennis Waight, fought in both WW1 and WW2 and went to France with the 12th Northumberland Fusiliers. He served as a Platoon and Coy Comander in the trenches until early 1918. During which he won the Military Cross.
He then became a Bristol Fighter Observer with 22nd Squadron RFC. He became an observer ace having downed 12 German aircraft.
He became a regular officer during his time with the Btn. and after the war left the RAF.
He rejoined the Fusiliers serving in India, Persia, Iraq and at Fenham Barracks in Newcastle, first as adjutant of the Northumberland Fusiliers and DLI depot and later as training major of a TA Btn.
At the outbreak of WW2 he joined a regular battalion at Bordon, Hants went to Palestine with it and served with it in the first battles in the Western Desert, Sidi Barrani as a company commander. He was promoted and joined Cheshire Regiment in Malta and served during the seige. On relief, he was promoted and ran a officers school in Haifa and returned to England to command a wt school near Guildford and then a wosb at St Albans and later near Brussels.
After the war ended he ran a prison for hard core Nazis at Harsewinkel, near Gutersloh as an officer of CCG.
Many felt he deserved greater recognition for his and the Cheshires performance in Malta. His father was a soldier, so was I and my son.
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