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Charles Parker - family man and engineer
The four Rance brothers
Triple tragedy: the Desaleux brothers
Samuel Levy's wife
Fran
k Mason, 16, the youngest
Cecil Philcox - Military Cross winner
Chris Dartnell - shell shocked
Cecil Philcox - killed in training
Harold J. Hill - a riddle solved
Harry Albert Nixon - syphilis treatment and conduct charges

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Charles Richard John Hill

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
C. R. G. Hill
(Charles Richard George Hill)
Service no 495791
Private, London Regiment, 1st/13th Kensington Battalion; also Machine Gun Corps, attd. 56th Coy.
Born in Camberwell; enlisted in Camberwell; lived in Lambeth
Died of wounds age 37 on 20 March 1918
CWGC: "Husband of Ethel May Hill, of 17 Clitheroe Road, Stockwell, London."
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
Charles Richard George Hill, 30 in 1911, was a compositor born in Camberwell. His wife, Ethel May Hill, 34, was from Brentford, Middlesex. The couple had no children and occupied 5 rooms at 17 Clitheroe Road, Stockwell.