Ordinary Seaman ERNEST HITCHON
Service Number: D/SR 16395
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Esperance Bay
Date of Death
Died 14 July 1940
Age 22 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Ernest and Florence May Hitchon, of Bristol; husband of Gladys Emily Hitchon, of Westbury, Bristol. King's Scout and Scoutmaster.
- Personal Inscription THOU HAST BEEN FAITHFUL: MAY WE LEARN TO SERVE
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