This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
G. J. Hatch
(George John Hatch)
(Hatch, George John)
Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps and London Regiment, 17th Battalion
Died age 20 on 6 April 1917
CWGC: "Son of John Cosens Hatch and Maria Hatch, of "Meadlands," Pickwick, Corsham, Wilts. Born in London."
In 1917 the death of George John Hatch was announced on page 1078 of Flight, listed in the Roll of Honour among those "Previously missing, now reported killed"
Remembered at Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

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Information from the 1911 census
The Hatch family lived at 9 St Johns Road (now called St John's Crescent), Brixton, where they had 11 rooms. George John Hatch's father, John Cosens Hatch, was the manager of a vinegar brewery. We can speculate that this may have been Beaufoy's Distillery on South Lambeth Road. John Hatch, 48 in 1911, was born in Stonehouse, Devon. His wife Maria Hatch, 49, was from Southwark. They had 4 children, all born in Lambeth:
Florence Hatch, 25
Hilda Hatch, 23
William E. Hatch, 19, a bank clerk
George John Hatch, 14
A nephew, 33-year-old George Foster, single and born in Peckham, also lived in the house, as did Violet Winter, a 21-year-old single domestic servant from Chelmsford, Essex.