WILLIAM+HITCHMAN

Hitchman, William, Rifleman, R/7916, 8th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Born: Dale Abbey, Derby Enlisted: Ilkeston Killed in action 12th April 1917 Aged 29 Son of Thomas and Martha Hitchman, of Dale Abbey, Ilkeston; husband of Lizzie Hitchman of Dale Abbey, Ilkeston Commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the Missing, Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France, Bay 7.

1911 Census Born Dale Abbey, Derbyshire, about 1888 Employed as a coal miner hewer Husband of Lizzie, and father of George William Hitchman, of The Moor, Dale Abbey, Derbyshire