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HITCH, Gordon Edgar
(Service number 52871)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	16 January 1897	Place of Birth	Timaru, NZ

Enlistment Information

Date	19 July 1917	Age	21
Address at Enlistment	22 King St, Timaru
Occupation	Dental Mechanic
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Watson Hitch, (father), King Street, Temuka, NZ
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	34th Reinforcements Specialist Company
Date	2 August 1918
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Liverpool, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	24 October 1918	Age	21
Place of Death	Field in France
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Awoingt British Cemetry, Nord,France
Memorial Reference	I.B.16
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Gordon Hitch was the son of Watson and Isabella Hitch, of Timaru, New Zealand

Sources

Cenotaph Data Base, Auckland Museum

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro (SC branch NZSG)

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