Basic Details
Surname
Hitchcock
Forenames
C J
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Alternative forename
Charles James
Served or died
Died
Service number
110639
Notes
The school website (see References) provides the extra service, name and death details and provides this brief biographical detail: 'Charles Hitchcock was born in London. He was at St Mary’s Woolhampton in 1903 when the School merged with Douai; he left in 1908, having won the Douai Society Prize (1905) and the Gaudeamus (1907). He passed the Oxford Local Examinations in 1907. A cousin of the film director Alfred
Hitchcock, he was an actor, and starred in several early silent films. He joined up at the outbreak of the War and saw action in Gallipoli, Palestine, and Egypt. Cemetery: Beersheba (Q.8)'
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
London Yeom-
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of burial
Israel
Town of burial
Beersheba
Cemetery
War Cemetery
Year of death
1917
Month of death
October
Day of death
28
Age at death
26