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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 21059" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Hitchon </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Robert Irwin </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>New Zealand Infantry (30 Bn)/Coastwatcher </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Private </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>64882 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>15th October 1942 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>28 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bourail Memorial,New Caledonia Panel 1 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Robert and Sarah Ann Hitchon,Kohimarama,Auckland City,New Zealand</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>next of kin quoted as his mother Sarah,No 7 Road,Waitoa,New Zealand</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>farmhand in civilian life</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Mention in Despatches</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW September 1942 Gilbert Islands</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>executed by Japanese Betio,Tarawa,Gilbert Islands </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-hitchon.35342/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35342-34a324e96f120d57006575962c547a6e.jpg?1618076473" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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