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Corporal JOHN HENRY STEWART HITCHEN

Service Number: 654441
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 30 July 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CALCUTTA (BHOWANIPORE) CEMETERY, KOLKATA

Plot L. Grave 172.

India

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Isabella Paterson Hitchen, of Preston, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription "WELL PLAYED, SIR"
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Buried or commemorated at

CALCUTTA (BHOWANIPORE) CEMETERY, KOLKATA
India
Number of casualties: 946
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