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L/Cpl Harry Joy Hill
British Army 7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Belfast
(d.25th Nov 1917)
Harry Hill is my maternal grandmothers brother. He was born in Belfast on 8th June 1886 and in the 1901 census he was working, aged 15, as a domestic servant and in the 1911 census he was a moulder in a factory. He joined up on 19th August 1914 and for an unknown reason ended up in D Company, 7th battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. His older brother David served in the Royal Irish Regiment and another older brother Johnny served in the Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War.He was killed during fighting in the Cambria operations on 25th November 1917, his body never recovered. The family was told he was hit by a shell.