Private John William Hitchen
240117 Army Veteran Corps
Died of Wounds 1st April 1941, aged 58
Lived at 15 Cavour Street

Burnley Express 5/4/1941 (P)

Wounded & Gassed 1916,discharged tried to work as a fish monger in Plumbe St.Had to finish in 1923 due to ill health.Medal for saving French soldiers in the firing line April 1915
Spent years in Sanatoriums.
Well known pianist