Name
Francis Charles Hill
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1915
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
16776
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 10 Oct 1873 and baptised on 6 Dec 1873 in Aboo, Bombay, India son of Col. Francis Charles Hill (late 2nd Battalion. Essex Regt.) and Frances Dorman Hill later of "Glenariff", Hythe, Kent, England. Educated at the United Services College 1886-88. Went to California as a fruit farmer and then to Canada in 1906 and lived in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. He was a carpenter.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Canada for the Overseas Expeditionary Force and declined a commission. Was reported missing, presumed dead at Langemark.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
