Service Details
Name:
 HITCHINSON
Given Name:
 ERNEST ARTHUR
Initials:
 E A
Rank:
 Trimmer
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Gloucester Castle (London)
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Date of Death:
 1942-07-15
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Intercepted, shelled and sunk by the German surface raider Schiff28 Michel midway between Ascension and Cape Town.
Additional
Information:
Son of Joseph Henry and Marian Magdalene Hitchinson, of Red Hill, Natal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 London
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Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 52.

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