Lieutenant Philip Henry Burt FITCH, MC

Lieutenant Philip Henry Burt Fitch, MC{gallery}Lt P H B Fitch MC{/gallery}D Battery, 177th Brigade, Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery
Killed in action by a shell during night firing in France and Flanders, 3rd July 1917, aged 20

• Buried: Brandhoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave I.N.15
  
• Awarded: Military Cross, British War and Victory Medals
  
• Son of  Albert Edward and Bride Harris Fitch of Bristol
• NNWFHS Memorial: King Edward VI Grammar School Nuneaton
  
• Other Memorial: King Edward School Edgbaston
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Lt Fitch
• Brandhoek Military Cemetery
• Royal Field Artillery

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born Apr Qtr 1897 at Barton Regis, Gloucestershire
  
• Attended King Edward VI Grammar School
• Lived at Mill House, Bolehall and Glascote [1901]
  
• Lived at 25 Wyndham Road, Edgbaston [1911]
• Was a schoolboy in 1911
• Promoted to 2nd Lt on 23 Dec 1915
• MC Gazetted on 16 Aug 1917

Circumstances leading to the award of the Military Cross
MC for action in June 1917, Messines. Gazetted 16 Aug 1917. “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in accompanying another officer and a sergeant into a gun emplacement in which a serious explosion had taken place, bringing out the killed and wounded and extinguishing a fire caused by the explosion amongst the ammunition.”