Second Lieutenant John Hutcheson

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Highbury, London. Son of Robert and Jane Symington Hutcheson, of Annandale, Cross Oak Road, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Educated at Berkhamsted School. On leaving school he entered the offices of the Clerical Medical and General Life Assurance Society but after the outbreak of war left at the beginning of October 1914 to join the Inns of Court O.T.C. From this, he was gazetted Second Lieutenant to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment 3rd October 1914. He went to France in July 1915 and was killed in action near Zillebeke, Belgium by a sniper while surveying his fire trenches on 8th September 1915, aged 18.

Buried : Hooge Crater Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium. Plot 5 Row H. Grave 9.