John Oliver Brook Hitch
Colonel John Oliver Brook Hitch was an English architect and a British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross.
Early life
John Oliver Brook Hitch was born in Harleyford Road, Lambeth, London, in 1887 to Nathaniel and Sarah Ann Hitch. His father was an architectural sculptor and mason. John had four sisters according to the 1911 census when the family were living at 60 Harleyford Road, Lambeth.Career
Hitch served in the British Army during the First World War, rising to the rank of colonel and being awarded the Military Cross.In architecture, he designed Shoreham war memorial in Kent, and the chalk war memorial at Cross Field, Shoreham. He designed the animal clinic at Kilburn, London, which was opened in 1932 and included decorative sculptures by Frederick Brook Hitch.