D. M. Newitt
From Graces Guide
Professor Dudley Maurice Newitt(1894–1980), chemical engineer
1894 Born in London, the second son of Edward James Dunn Newitt, a ballistics engineer, and his wife, Alice Gertrude Lewis.
Educated at school at Wandsworth
1910 Appointed assistant chemist at the Nobel's explosives factory, Ardeer
Attended evening classes at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College
1912 passed his intermediate BSc but plans for further study were disrupted by the War.
WWI Served on the north-west frontier in India and then Mesopotamia
1918 he received the Military Cross for his participation in the capture of Samaria, and was promoted major. He continued as a regional administrator in Syria up to his demobilization in 1919.
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- Biography, ODNB