Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | Frederick Overend Kitching |
Born | Cockerton, County Durham, England | 4 July 1886
Died | 11 August 1918 Dunkirk, France | (aged 32)
Sport | |
Sport | Track and field |
Event | Standing long jump |
Frederick Overend Kitching (4 July 1886 – 11 August 1918) was a British athlete.[1] He competed in the men's standing long jump event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[2] He was killed in action during World War I.[3]
Kitching served as an orderly in the Friends' Ambulance Unit during the First World War.[4] He joined the unit after declaring himself a conscientious objector. Serving for two years, Kitching died in a German air raid on Dunkirk in August 1918.[5] He is buried at Dunkirk Town Cemetery.[4]