BORN HULL 1898. THIRD SON OF ARTHUR & SARAH ELIZABETH (NIX) KITCHING, 1 PRIOR STREET, DRYPOOL & THIS CWGC ADDRESS. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. ENLISTED HULL. EX 4174 EYR. HIS OLDER BROTHERS WILLIAM AND ARTHUR KITCHING ALSO SERVED IN THE WAR. GEORGE DIED OF WOUNDS ON 09/08/1918, AGED 20. HE WAS UNMARRIED AND HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE GIVEN TO HIS MOTHER. HE IS BURIED AT NAMPS-AU-VAL BRITISH CEMETERY, ON THE SOMME. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “THE LORD SAID TO HIM COME UNTO ME AND REST”.
Note: Thank You to Stewart Morton, stewart_morton@hotmail.com sent 5th July 2017 for the following information. George Kitching’s tank commander was Captain, Wilfred Bion, DSO, who later became a famous psychoanalyst after the war. Bion refers specifically to Kitching’s death in his book, “All My Sins Remembered”, published 6 years after his death. On page 44 he says ” Once you have learnt, have been really taught you are a coward, no amount of official certification by the highest authorities is any more use than the first aid bandage slung across the gap where Kitching’s chest wall should have been; it could not render invisible his heart beating away his life.” It’s really a brutal phrase seeing as Bion is referring to himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Bion
Kitching, George
First name:
GEORGE
Regiment:
Military Number:
92119
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/08/1918
Place died:
Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery, Somme, France
Age:
20
12 , WARWICK STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
