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Military service
Service number:
R/ 146998
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
115 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
June 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave.
Additional information
Son of Edwin and Lilian E. Hitchcock, of Charing Cross, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant George Edwin Hitchcock
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Photo of George Hitchcock
From the book; …and they never came back. The story of the C. V. S (Chatham Vocational School) students who fought and died in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, with the permission of the author Peter N. Stanojevic. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant George Edwin Hitchcock is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant George Edwin Hitchcock is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Group Photo
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of GEORGE EDWIN HITCHCOCK
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant George Edwin Hitchcock
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant George Edwin Hitchcock
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 336 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HOUDAN COMMUNAL CEMETERY Yvelines, France
Houdan is a small town 40 kilometres west of Versailles. The cemetery is on the west side of the town on the north of the Houdan-Dreux road, and some 300 yards west of the junction of this road with the Dreux-Houdan-Rambouillet road.
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