Russel Royal Pitchers

Born: 22 August 1892

Died: 29 April 1915

Rank and Regiment: Private 8220 in the 2nd Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment

Resting Place: Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery - Screen Wall. G.B. 18. 139

Memorials: All Saints, Brandon Parva, United Kingdom

Russel Pitchers was born in Flordon, a little village about 8 miles south of Norwich, on 22 August 1892. He was baptised at Flordon on 11 June 1893. He was the son of John Pitchers (1861-1951) and Emma Pitchers nee Carlton (1859-1916).

He worked as a farm labourer after leaving school but enlisted in the 2nd Battalion the Norfolk Regiment. He was posted to India in 1912.

He became ill with pleurisy and tuberculosis; a record survives of the award to him of a pension of 25s per week which appears to date from as early as January 1914. No other military records of him appear to have survived. He was treated at the Military Hospital, Tooting, where he died on 12 October 1916.

His effects totalling £13 0s 2d, together with a War Gratuity of £12 10s, appear to have been paid out to his sister and sole legatee Daisy V Plews.

Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery