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HILL, John Cecil
(Service number 6/1078)

Major David Grant and his subalterns pictured at Addington in September 1914 — Pictured are (from left to right): BACK ROW: Lt Francis Maurice, Lt Cliff Barclay, LKt John Hill; FRONT ROW: Lt Douglas Fraser, Major David Grant, David, Lt Raymond Lawry (South Canterbury Museum 2011/175.04)

Lt John Cecil Hill — (Supplement, Auckland Weekly News, 13 May 1915, p.39 )

Aliases
First Rank	Lieutenant	Last Rank	Lieutenant

Birth

Date	06/08/1886	Place of Birth	Petrograd, Russia

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Werry's Hotel, Timaru
Occupation	Ceylon planter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Hon. Frank HILL, 9 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, England
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, Canterbury	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With	2nd South Canrerbury Company
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Artist. Cartoonist for the 'Auckland Star'.

Death

Date	8 August 1974	Age	85 yrs
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cremated at Rotorua
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Enlisted at Timaru.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [25 September 2013]. Timaru Herald, 10 May 1915 (Papers Past) [19 September 2013]

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