BORN HULL 1894. KNOWN AS CYRIL BILLINGTON. SON OF WALTER BILLINGTON (1869-1942) & KATE ADELAIDE (1873-1944), AT 2, ELM VILLAS, BRAZIL STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND 27, RENSBURG STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, RAYMOND AND ONE SISTER, LILIAN.
HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN APPRENTICE CLERK FOR THE WILSON SHIPPING LINE.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 10073, ARMY CYCLIST CORPS. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 08/03/1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE “ACCRINGTON PALS” ON 22/05/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, 01/07/1916, AGED 22.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS FATHER, WALTER, WHO MOVED TO WESTCOTT STREET, HOLDERNNESS ROAD AND THEN 3 NORTH PROMENADE, WITHERNSEA (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HE LEFT BROTHER RAYMOND. LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 01/07/1919.
BURIED: Railway Hollow Cemetery, Hebuterne, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
