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HITCH, Leonard John Watson Sandes
(Service number 22701)

Aliases	Noel
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	25/04/1893	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Post Office, Otautau
Occupation	Telegraph cadet clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mr Watson HITCH (father), Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	17th Reinforcements Signalling Section
Date	23 September 1916
Transport	Pakeha
Embarked From		Destination	Devonport, Devon, England

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Death

Date	1 April 1967	Age	73 years
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Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 43, Plot 571
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Leonard John Watson Sandes Hitch was the eldest of the three sons of Watson and Isabella (Bella, née Kellahan) Hitch, and a brother of Gordon Edgar Hitch who died of wounds in 1918. Like his brothers he was educated at the Timaru Main School.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 February 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal ffairs) [18 February 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [17 February 2017]

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