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The Kitching brothers at Measand
Picture Courtesy of Shap Heritage Centre
The War Memorial and commemorative tablet list the name of Lowther L. KITCHEN. The researchers believe that this is likely to be a misspelling as no Lowther L. KITCHEN is listed on the CWWG Site or Soldiers Died WW1. Further research is being carried out at this time.
It is likely that the monument commemorates Private Lowther Lonsdale Little KITCHING who was listed as living at Church Street, Shap prior to the war.
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference
Cemetery
Private
20178
06/12/1915
31
Border Regiment
1st Bn.
H. 63.
Turkey
Additional Information:
Additional Information:
Son of William and Eliza Kitching, of Haweswaler, Westmorland.
Private 20178, 1st Battalion, Border Regiment. Killed in action 5 December 1915. Born Haweswater, enlisted Appleby, resident Shap. Aged 31. Son of William and Eliza Kitching, of Haweswaler, Westmorland.
In the 1911 census he was living with his brother, Thomas Bonsfield Kitching, aged 27, a Road Labourer, born Bampton, Westmorland. resident Far Millhouse, Middleton, Kirby Lonsdale.
Reference: WO 372/11/191580
Title: Medal card of Kitching, Lowther.
Corps: Border Regiment Regiment No: 20178
Date: 1914-1920
Lowther Lonsdale Kitching was the son of William and Eliza Kitching from Meaand at Mardale. William and Eliza had sixteen known children.
See more information about the Kitchings at Measand on the Shap Family Histories Website:
http://shapfamilyhistories.wordpress.com/mardalefamilies/kitchings-family/kitching-family-of-measand/
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