Second Lieutenant John Chisholm MacHutcheon

Second Lieutenant John Chisholm MacHutcheon

Army Number: Formerly Sergeant 119023, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Also 2/6th (Cyclist Battalion) Royal Sussex Regiment.

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British War and Victory Medal

Born in Glasgow, son of John and Agnes Machutcheon, of 25 Broomhill Terrace Partick, Glasgow. He was an artist and teacher who enlisted at Brighton on 4th January 1915. He was commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters on 31st July 1915 and went to France on 1st February 1916. He died of wounds on 2nd August 1916, aged 31.

Buried: Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 2. Row A. Grave 24.

Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

His brothers, Private Anthony MacHutcheon, 1/3rd Scottish Horse, and Colour Quartermaster Sergeant Alec MacHutcheon, Army Service Corps, also fell in the Great War.