Frederick Kitching

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| name = Frederick Kitching

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| nationality = British (English)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1886|7|4|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Cockerton, County Durham, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|8|11|1886|7|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Dunkirk, France

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| sport = Track and field

| event = Standing long jump

| club = L.A.C.

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Frederick Overend Kitching (4 July 1886 – 11 August 1918) was a British athlete who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69227 |title=Frederick Kitching |work=Olympedia |access-date=11 April 2025}}

Athletics career

Kitching represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London,{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000648/19080612/187/0008 |title=Olympic Games, Britain's team of athletes |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=12 June 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2025}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001055/19080612/073/0003 |title=The Olympic Games, British Representatives |work=The Sportsman |date=12 June 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2025}} where he competed in the men's standing long jump event.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/frederick-kitching-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042120/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/frederick-kitching-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Frederick Kitching |access-date=26 August 2016}}

Personal life

Kitching was a solicitor by trade and served as an orderly in the Friends' Ambulance Unit during the First World War.{{CWGC|id=617288|name=Kitching, Frederick Overend|access-date=19 May 2020}} 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.{{cite web |title=Frederick Overend Kitching (1886-1918) |url=https://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/11341/ |publisher=Durham at War |access-date=19 May 2020}} He is buried at Dunkirk Town Cemetery.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id%3D65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |access-date=26 August 2016 }}