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• Name WHITEHEAD
• Initials HGE
• First name HITCHON GLADSTONE EARTON
• Place of birth Burnley
• Country Lancashire, England
• Last residence Burnley
• Family Son of Hitchon and Emma Whitehead, of 49, Francis St., Burnley; one brother, Robert; six sisters: Alice, Ellen, Elizabeth, Sarah, Muriel Sophie and Gertrude May;
• Profession Worked with his father, a builder and contractor

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment April 1917 Preston, Lancashire
• Service number 37735
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 24th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 8th Division
• National force B.E.F.

Death

• Date of death 7 January 1918
• Died at the age of 18
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - DD - 10

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