In Memory Of

HUTCHINSON, JAMES WALTER

Service Details
Age:
 30
Date of Birth:
 1884-10-14
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 2nd Bn.
Regiment:
 Bedfordshire Regiment
Date of Death:
 1915-09-25
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, during the battalion's assault on the opening day of the Battle of Loos and they were met by heavy fire from two sides when they advanced across open ground. He was wounded during this assault and died from his wounds during the course of the day
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 41.
Cemetery:
 LOOS MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of William Arthur and Charlotte Catherine Birch Johnstone Hutchinson, of Rooi Vaal, Harding, Natal, South Africa. Captain Hutchinson was originally buried between the two original front lines from before the battle, just to the south of the Hulluch Road but his final resting place was either lost or disturbed as he is now remembered on the Loos Memorial to the missing. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918