[1] He was 20 years old, and an Acting Captain in the 4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own),[2] British Army during the First World War.

He continued to encourage his men by standing on the parapet and steadying them in the face of machine gun fire and counterattack until he was killed.

His conduct throughout was a magnificent example of the greatest devotion to duty.His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Green Howards Regimental Museum, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England.

I engaged her in conversation asking what her interest was in my talk which was on Jewish Commandos the SIG in WW2 - and she said she was the first cousin of Hirsch VC and knew him when she was a little girl and saw him on his last leave before he was killed.

In a book by Dr Harold Pollins of Ruskin College Oxford, the Hirsch family history is detailed in one chapter and is kept at the Imperial War Museum in London