Friday 13 August 2010

23962 L/Cpl William Kitchin, 1st Bn, Border Regt

23962 Lance-Corporal William Kitchin of the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment, was killed in action on the 13th August 1917. He was 24 years old, the son of Mrs A J Kitchin, of 4 Williamson Lane, Tangier Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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