Second Lieutenant, Essex Regiment, 1st/6th Bn., attd. 23rd Trench Mortar Bty.
Soldiers Died" "5th Battalion (Territorial)"
Died on 19 November 1916, aged 20
CWGC: "Son of Horace William and Clara Lucy Hill, of 35, Narbonne Avenue, Clapham, London."
Remembered at Etretat Churchyard, Seine-Maritime, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Eric Battley Hill, then a 14-year-old schoolboy, lived at 35 Narbonne Avenue, Clapham (an 9-roomed house) with his parents, aunt and five siblings. Horace William Hill, 43, was a shorthand writer, born in Camberwell, south-east London
Clara Lucy Hill, 46, was born in New Cross, south-east London
Kate Helen Townsend, Eric's maternal aunt, single, was born in Peckham
Ernest [unreadable] Hill, 19, student, born in Peckham
Dorothy Emma Hill, 16, born in Peckham
Eric Battley Hill, 14, born in Peckham
Charles Henry Ellington Hill, 10, born in Clapham
Kathleen Eva Hill, 9, born in Clapham
Percy Horace Hill, 8, born in Clapham