Innes Hutchison

Innes Owen Hutchison was killed in action on 7th January 1916. The eldest son of Mr & Mrs William Innes Hutchison, of Gresford Avenue, Sefton Park, Liverpool, he enlisted in the Artists Rifles (officially the 1/28th (County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment, a unit of the Territorial Force) on 4th August 1914. He moved to France with his unit on 28th October 1914, and was commissioned into the Black Watch in early 1915. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, a unit of the Regular Army, he saw action at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers and Festubert, where he was Mentioned in Despatches. The battalion, part of the Meerut Division of the Indian Corps, moved to Mesopotamia, landing at Basra on the last day of 1915. Within a week he was dead: the battalion formed part of a force that was attempting to break through the Turk defences rinfing the besieged British contingent at Kut-al-Amara, and Innes died leading an infantry charge at the Battle of Sheik Sa'ad. Prior to enlistment, he was on the staff of the London Evening News. He held a BA (Hons) in Economics.