Early Life
Hezlet was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where his father Major-General RK Hezlet, CB, CBE, DSO, was serving in the British Army.
Hezlet joined the Royal Navy in January 1928, aged 13. He attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and went to sea in 1932, serving as a midshipman on the battleships HMS Royal Oak and HMS Resolution. By 1936, he was the correspondence officer on the destroyer HMS Daring, later volunteering to serve on submarines. He served on HMS Regulus.
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