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WOII. Ivor Leonard Lillington
British Army 18th Field Regiment Royal Artillery
from:Cholsey, Berkshire
(d.1st Jun 1940)
Ivor Lillington was born in 1902 in Combe, Hungerford. In 1911 he was living in Baker Street in Aston Tirrold, Berkshire with his father Albert and mother Charlotte Ann (nee Gifford) and 5 siblings. His elder brother Claude Lillington would be killed in WW1 on 31st of July 1917 in France.
In WW2, Ivor was serving with the 18th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. He had been sent to France with his regiment at the start of the war and in 1940 his unit was trapped and he made his way to Dunkirk where he was evacuated.
Whether he was badly injured before getting on a ship or whilst on a ship, he was treated in hospital in Dover for injuries and died there on 1st of June 1940.