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Lieutenant HERBERT WILLIAM HITCHCOCK

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch)

"A" Coy.

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MILL ROAD CEMETERY, THIEPVAL

II. B. 10.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. Son of Herbert Parnell Hitchcock and Agnes Maud Hitchcock, of Marlborough, Sandown, Isle of Wight.
  • Personal Inscription I WILL GO FORTH WHEN I FALL IT MATTERS NOT SO AS GOD'S WORK IS DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

MILL ROAD CEMETERY, THIEPVAL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1305
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