Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens died of hospital-acquired pneumonia on 15 December 2011 in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, aged 62. In accordance with his wishes, his body was donated to medical research. "Mortality", a collection of seven of Hitchen's "Vanity Fair" essays about his illness, was published posthumously in September 2012.
William Thomas Hitchen
He enlisted in October 1915 but attestation forms were only signed at Bathurst in February 1916. W.T. Hitchen’s AIF number was 1677, his unit as the 45th Infantry Battalion, which was in the 12th Brigade, of the 4th Division. He declared his age at attestation as being 44. However, at this death less than a year later, his age was given as 52. Pte William Thomas Hitchen died of "Melanotic Sarcoma" ( he was ill with diabetes) on 3 September 1916 and is buried in the Harefield (St Mary) churchyard in Middlesex, England.