Notes
He would have enrolled at Worcester College, Oxford in 1915 but served instead. The college archives add: 'D. Philip Hirsch was born in 1896 and attended Willaston School, Nantwich where he was head of the school in his last year. He was elected to a History Exhibition at Worcester College in 1915, but wrote in July of that year to request that it was suspended as he had joined the Yorkshire Regiment; he never came into residence. Captain D. Phillip Hirsch was killed in action on 23 April 1917 during the Battle of Arras. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross “for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in attack”.