Service Details
Name:
 HUTCHINSON
Given Name:
 JAMES WALTER
Initials:
 J W
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Bedfordshire Regiment
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Unit:
 2nd Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1915-09-25
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Date of Birth:
 1884-10-14
Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, during the battalion's assault on the opening day of the Battle of Loos and they were met by heavy fire from two sides when they advanced across open ground. He was wounded during this assault and died from his wounds during the course of the day
Additional
Information:
Son of William Arthur and Charlotte Catherine Birch Johnstone Hutchinson, of Rooi Vaal, Harding, Natal, South Africa. Captain Hutchinson was originally buried between the two original front lines from before the battle, just to the south of the Hulluch Road but his final resting place was either lost or disturbed as he is now remembered on the Loos Memorial to the missing. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 LOOS MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 41.

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