Eric Battley Hill

Eric Battley Hill

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