In Memory Of
HITCHINSON, ERNEST ARTHUR
Service Details
Age:
24
Date of Birth:
1918-04-27
Rank:
Trimmer
Unit:
S.S. Gloucester Castle (London)
Regiment:
Merchant Navy
Date of Death:
1942-07-15
Cause of Death:
Intercepted, shelled and sunk by the German surface raider Schiff28 Michel midway between Ascension and Cape Town.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Panel 52.
Cemetery:
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
London
Country:
United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Joseph Henry and Marian Magdalene Hitchinson, of Red Hill, Natal, South Africa.
