BORN ST GEORGES, HULL 1894.SON OF CHARLES AND THE LATE MARGARET GIBSON, 3 FRANCIS STREET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE LIVED IN SCUNTHORPE, LINCS. MARRIED. WIFE LIZZIE & SON JOHN. WAS A PLATE LAYER’S LABOURER. ENLISTED BEFORE THE WAR ON 28/08/1913. SENT TO FRANCE ON 13/08/1914. HOSPITALISED WITH FROSTBITE TO THE FEET. JOINED 2ND BN ON 23/07/1915. WAS PROMOTED TO LANCE CORPORAL BUT DEMOTED AND A NUMBER OF ABSENCES. KILLED IN ACTION ON 19/04/1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS FATHER CHARLES.
First name:
GEORGE HILLIARD
Regiment:
Military Number:
9621
Rank:
Private
Date Died
19/04/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
23
