General Sir John Winthrop Hackett, was an Australian-born British soldier, painter, university administrator, author and in later life, a commentator.
King George VI inspects paratroops of 1st Airborne Division, 16 March 1944. Standing just a bit behind the King, with swagger stick and maroon beret, is Brigadier "Shan" Hackett, commanding the 4th Parachute Brigade, while Lieutenant Colonel K. B. I. Smyth, commanding the 10th Parachute Battalion and in maroon beret, stands just in front of him.
St Elizabeth Hospital
18 September 1994, John Hackett receives a medal of honour in Ede, the Netherlands
The 4th Parachute Brigade was an airborne, specifically a parachute infantry, brigade formation of the British Army during the Second World War. Formed in late 1942 in the Mediterranean and Middle Eas
September 1944. Men of the 4th Parachute Brigade (4 Bde) in Oosterbeek during Operation Market Garden (left & second left): John (Jackie) Burns & Lance Corporal Noel Rosenberg (both 10 Platoon/"C" Company, 156 Para. Bn); (third left Alfred John Ward HQ 4th Brigade Driver for Hackett and; (right) Polish paratrooper.Photo taken by Sgt Mike Lewis British Army Film Unit
Men at the parachute school assault course, North Africa 1943.
General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the British Eighth Army, stands on a vehicle and talks to men of the 4th Parachute Brigade, North Africa, 1943.
King George VI with Brigadier Hackett (right) and Lieutenant Colonel Des Vouex (left) during an inspection of Des Vouex's 156th Parachute Battalion, part of Hackett's 4th Parachute Brigade, March 1944.