Name
George Hutchin
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14737
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
George Hutchin was born in 1885 in Bishop's Stortford to Nathan and Elizabeth Hutchin and the family lived in Castle Street, Bishop's Stortford on the 1891 Census. His father died in 1892 and on the 1911 Census he was living with his widowed mother and brother James at 43 Castle Street, Bishop's Stortford, Herts, and working as a labourer at the gas works.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bishop's Stortford and served in Bedfordshire Regiment. He was killed during the Battle of Arras - the Third Battle of the Scarpe.
The war diary for the day he died describes a rather chaotic attack, starting at 4.15 am, where the men lost direction and could scarcely see each other. Along with the Leicestershire and Middlesex regiment they came under heavy machine gun fire and could not penetrate the thick wire. The majority eventually returned back to their original front line.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £12 and pay owing of £5 12s 4d. (She died in 1924)
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
