Hitchcock was too young to enlist when World War I broke out in July 1914, and when he was old enough, in 1917, he failed the medical, possibly because of his size, an unnamed condition, or the recent death of his father.
Hitchcock was too young to enlist when World War I broke out in July 1914, and when he was old enough, in 1917, he failed the medical. He was excused with a "C3" classification, possibly because of his size, an unnamed condition, or the recent death of his father.