Private 15860 Herbert Amos PITCHER

Private 15860 Herbert Amos Pitcher{gallery}Pte H A Pitcher{/gallery}7th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in action in Gallipoli, 8th August 1915, aged 22

• Buried: 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery, Turkey. Grave ref: Sp. Mem. A. 109
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
  
• Son of Son of Stephen and Susan Pitcher of Newton Regis
• NNWFHS Memorial: Newton Regis
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Pte Pitcher
• NNWFHS Newton Regis War Memorial Page
• 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery
• North Staffordshire Regiment

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born c1886 in Wellesbourne
• Lived in Austrey [1911]
  
• Employed as a coal miner at Alvecote Colliery
• First Soldier from Newton Regis to be killed in WWI