About Francis Clere Hitchcock
Lived 1896 – 1962 (aged 65–66). Francis Clere Hitchcock was an author.
Colonel Francis Clere Hitchcock MC (1896–1962) wrote Stand To—A Diary of the Trenches 1915–1918 about the activities of the second Leinster Regiment of the British Army in World War I.
Biography He was born in Dublin and spent most of his young life in Kinnitty, Birr, County Offaly where his father was the Church of Ireland parish rector. His brother was the Hollywood director Rex Ingram.
He enlisted as an officer in the Leinster Regiment in April 1916, after graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and fought in France where he was awarded the Military Cross, the citation for which reads as follows:
He remained in the British Army until retirement with the rank of Colonel.
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Who was Francis Clere Hitchcock?
Irish writer and British Army officer
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Francis Clere Hitchcock was born in 1896.
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Francis Clere Hitchcock died in 1962.
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Francis Clere Hitchcock was an author.
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