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Arnold Hitchon

Rank: 
Lieutenant
Regimental number: 
7780
Unit at enlistment: 
7th Canadian Mounted Rifles
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario
Commemorated at: 
First Baptist Church, Victoria Public School Honour Roll
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Brantford, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
4 Roberts Avenue, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
4 Roberts Avenue, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Student
Religious denominations: 
Baptist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
19

Letters and documents

BX August 21, 1918

Mr. C.B. Hitchon has been advised that his son, Lieutenant Arnold Hitchon has been wounded slightly in the head. Lieut. Hitchon is the second boy of the family to receive wounds. Lieutenant W.W. Hitchon having been wounded last fall. Arnold Hitchon has seen over three years of warfare, having left Brantford as a private and having won his commission on the field. He has been serving with the 7th Battalion, second brigade.

BX August 23, 1918

Word came this morning that Lieutenant Arnold Hitchon had arrived at Rouen Hospital, and had received a slight wound in the forehead.

BX May 10, 1965

Insurance Executive, A.G. Hitchon Dies

Arnold G. Hitchon, 69, of 31 William Street, well-known citizen and prominent in local and Canadian insurance circles for 45 years, died Sunday in the Brantford General Hospital.

In April, Mr. Hitchon retired as president of Bunnell, Hitchon, Limited, an insurance agency he started in 1920 and linked with the firm of A.K. Bunnell in 1929.  He remained a director of the company after his retirement.

Born in Brantford, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Cobden Bright Hitchon.  He attended Victoria Public School and the Brantford Collegiate Institute.

In 1914, he enlisted in the First World War and until 1918 served with the First Division Cavalry, Lord Strathcona’s Horse.  He also served in the Army of Occupation in 1919, returning to Canada in 1920.  He spent another year with the Soldiers’ Rehabilitation Association.

Mr. Hitchon was a keen outdoor sportsman.  He was past president of the Loon Lake Hunting Club Limited.

In the Brantford community, his activities centered around many organizations.  Mr. Hitchon was past president of the Brantford Board of Trade, the Brantford Conservative Association, the Brant County War Memorial Association, Brantford Roofing Limited, the Brantford Club and the Social Service League.

He was a member of the Brantford Golf and Country Club and Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 90.

He was active in First Baptist Church, and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the church.

Mr. Hitchon was active in Community Chest and United Appeal campaigns and the Victory Loan campaign during the Second World War.

Outside the community, he was a member of National Club of Toronto and former Governor of McMaster University in Hamilton.

Mr. Hitchon is survived by his wife, the former Kathleen Louise Reville; three sons, A. Reville Hitchon, J. Michael Hitchon and F. Dennis Hitchon, all of Brantford; a brother, Lawrence E. Hitchon of Pittsburgh, Penn.; and 11 grandchildren.

He was predeceased by brother, Lieutenant W.W. Hitchon; two sisters, Mrs. Breta Fuller of Toronto and Mrs. Edith Higgins of Goderich.

Mr. Hitchon is at the Beckett Funeral Home. Service will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in First Baptist Church.  Rev. Cyril Squires will officiate. Interment will be in Farringdon Burial Ground.

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