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Private J H HITCH

Service Number: 50758
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1918

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

V. D. 84.

France

Images from Old Images Drive taken by DG and saved on CD, November 2005: headstone of Sgt. W. McCulloch in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany

Photographer: DG

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late William and Annie Hitch; husband of Violet Mary Hitch, of Scamblesby, Louth, Lincs. Born Keighley.
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Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3548
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