Name
David Cornelius Hutchin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/11/1918
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
157854
Royal Field Artillery
3rd Home Counties Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SAWBRIDGEWORTH (GREAT ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
New. 6. 1
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Sawbridgeworth Town Memorial, Great St Mary’s Church Memorial, Sawbridgeworth, We are not aware of any memorial in Spellbrook
Pre War
David was the son of Cornelius and Emma Hutchin and husband of Annie Elizabeth Hutchin, of Spellbrook, Bishop's Stortford. Born at Spellbrook in February 1887.
From the age of 14 David Hutchin was a ‘Hay Binder’s Labourer’. In 1910 he married Annie Elizabeth Kelly at Sawbridgeworth.
Wartime Service
David enlisted into the Royal Field Artillery (3rd Home Counties Brigade), and he was a Gunner with the service number 157854. This was a reserve unit operating coastal guns based in Kent.
David is later in 1917 transferred to the 553rd Agricultural Company, Labour Corps with the service number 465879. The Labour Corps was formed in 1917 and was composed mainly of servicemen who were unfit for active service. From the end of 1917, up to at least April 1918, this particular unit was based in Ireland in the Dublin area. The transfer would have been the result of a change in David's fitness for service. This may have been due illness or injury.
David is buried in Great St. Mary’s churchyard. It has been suggested that he was actually 31 when he died.
Additional Information
His headstone reads “May he rest in peace” as requested by his wife, who was still living in Spellbrook, Bishop's Stortford.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
