Billington, Walter Cyril

To the memory of members of the Ellerman – Wilson Cricket & Athletic Club, who made the supreme sacrifice whilst serving in defence of their King and country in the Great European War 1914 – 1919.
Walter Cyril Billington

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

Walter Cyril Billington

First name:
WALTER CYRIL
Military Number:
27274
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
01/07/1916
Place died:
Railway Hollow Cemetery, Hebuterne, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Age:
22
27 RENSBURG STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK