| Surname: | Hyatt |
| Initials: | A H |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 5726178 |
| Notes: | CMP. 165 Pro Coy. Enlisted in the Dorset Regiment, transferred to Royal Artillery, Searchlight, transferred to CMP. Alan Henry Hyatt. 16/6/48 name changed to Hiatt Alan Henry Jones, Discharge Book 25. Extract from the Thanet Advertiser 9/10/1945. THE ROAD TO VICTORY, THANET MEN HELPED TO SHOW THE WAY. Two Thanet men, L/Cpl, A Hemmings of 51 Hardres Street, Ramsgate, and L/Cpl A H Hyatt, of 128 Byron Avenue, Margate are members of 101 Provost Company, Corps of Military Police which, from Dunkirk to Austria, has been signposting the battle road to victory. Since 1939 when the company was mobilised at Aldershot thousands of of miles of route have been singed by it to keep drivers on the correct roads, to remind them of their responsibilities and to show the the way home. The company arrived in Algiers in December 1942 and in Tunisia the bottle-neck at Medjez el Bab, key point of the famous switches of the United States 2nd Corps and elements to the 8th Army was the entire responsibility of "101." Its members will long remember the road from Medjez to "Peter's Corner." In Italy one of the most tricky operations tackled by the company was when detachments took up positions along the route from Campobusso, through Rome to Foligno to control the heavy operational traffic taking up secret positions for the attack on the Gothic Line. Despite heavily congested roads, bull-dozed diversions, deep fords and torrential rain for long periods the traffic always got through. During the final offensive ending with the total surrender of the German troops south of the Alps, and elaborate system of traffic control was established enabling the quick passage of armour and infantry across the Reno and Santerno Rivers, through the Argenta Gap and on to Ferrara and the Po. The company entered Austria on V E Day and set up headquarters at Klagenfurt whee the took up occupational duties after two and a half years of operational work. |