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Gunner JOHN HITCHCOCK

Service Number: 107945
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

156th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 30 December 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

VI. BB. 56.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ellis and Hannah Hitchcock, of Hopwell Cottages, Ockbrook, Derby.
  • Personal Inscription BRIGHTEST AND BEST THE SONS OF THE MORN
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Buried or commemorated at

MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2442
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