Jack
Firstname
Watson
Middle Name
Litchfield
Surname
Date of Birth
School Years:
Date of Death:
1919 - 27
Family
Son of H. L. Litchfield of Ipswich who taught at Northgate School. Married Nan, daughter of H. W. Hatherly of Shanghai with two sons and a daughter.
School Record
Second Prefect. Actor. He excelled at Science. He won the John Henry Bartlet Prize in 4 successive years and, in his final year, carried off the Bartlet Exhibition, the Notcutt Prize for Physics, the Cobbold for Mathematics and the Rigaud Prize for the best boy proceeding to University. He was a member and Treasurer of the Ipswich School Club, Lance Corporal in the O. T. C. and a member of the French Circle and the Literary and Dramatic Society. He won an Open Scholarship in natural Science to Oriel College Oxford
Branch of Service:
Army Royal Army Medical Corps
Service Number:
231689
Rank:
Decorations:
Service Record
Lt. Colonel
MID and Campaign Medals
Post War Career
He served from 1942 - 45 in military hospitals in Tunisia, Italy (including Monte Casino, Anzio, Salerno, San Marino), Palestine and Egypt.
O.I. President 1965. See pages 57 - 59 of volume 13 of OIM for 1965.
Physician to St. Mary's Hospital and examiner at Oxford and London, his speciality being heart.
Burial Information
Additional Information
There is a story that, during the war, he told a very important Person that his condtion would be improved if he cut down his cigar smoking. "Young Man......! growled the patient".
Gazette info:https.//www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36668/supplement/3935 dated 24/08/1944
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