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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth York
• Land Yorkshire, England
• Family Son of Thomas and Jessie Aitchison, of 21, Woodburn Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland; elder brother Thomas was killed at the Dardanelles, 28th June, 1915; a sister, Margaret;
• Education George Heriot's School (Edinburgh)
• Profession Banker with the Canadian Bank of Commerce
• Extra info Commemorated in "Letters from the Front", roll of honour of the Canadian Bank of Commerce

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 25 November 1914, Valcartier
• Rank Lieutenant
• Medals Military Cross
• Regiment and unit 13th Bn. Québec Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada)
• Other data related to military career Enlisted as a gunner in 1st Can Divisional Ammunition Column; promoted Lieutenant in 1915; Military Cross "For conspicuous gallantry in leading forward a party of bombers and rifles through the enemy's barrage in order to occupy an important point. His gallant act removed a great danger." (London Gazette, April 1916)
  

Death

• Wounded 13 May, Dominion Lines
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in the right thigh and compound fracture left thigh, severe laceration left groin, in n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - A - 36

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