L/Cpl Arthur Wilfrid Lavington Hill, 5486595, No. 7 Coy. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment

1899 Dec 28 Born Portsea Island, Hants

1901 census at 4, Bath Cottages, Fareham

1911 census at 21 South Wallington, Fareham, Hampshire

1921 May 18 . Died. Son of Frederick John and Harriet Margaret Hill, of 10, The Mount, North Wallington, Fareham.

• Lance Corporal Hill was on duty at Glanmire Railway Station County Cork.
• He went off duty at 5.30pm
• He visited a friend at her house from 7pm until 9pm.
• At about 9.30pm an employee at the Lower Glanmire Road level crossing heard several shots and was later informed by a woman that a man had been shot on the road.
• The military were informed and the Curfew Patrol found the body of Lance Corporal Hill lying face down, two .45 revolver bullets were found in a pool of blood.
• Evidence was also found that several people had waited at the spot for some time. Medical evidence found that Hill had a .45 revolver wound in the head the bullet having entered behind the ear and fractured the skull. Another bullet had passed clean through the head from back to front and there were two more wounds to the left fore-arm and the back of the neck.
• The IRA believed that Hill was intelligence

Buried Fareham Cemetery

British Soldiers died in Ireland