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Hiram Hill

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
739215
Unit at enlistment: 
114th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
July 28th, 1918
Cemetery: 
Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - I.F.20.
Commemorated at: 
Six Nations Memorial Plaque
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Six Nations, Tuscarora, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
Cayuga, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
Hartford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Farmer
Religious denominations: 
Baptist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
31
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Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds. About 1 a.m. on 26th July 1918, the enemy put over a salvo of gas shells on the billets situated near Le Chat Maigre, West of Neuville Vitasse. Sapper Hill suffered gas wounds. He received attention immediately but succumbed at No. 30 Casualty Clearing Station two days later.

BX August 7, 1918

Died of Wounds

In the official report of casualties issued from Ottawa today, Hiram Hill of the Engineers of Hartford, Ont., is reported as having died of wounds received in action.

BX August 20, 1918

To the Six Nations Reserve the war has again been brought home by news of the death in action of Private Hiram Hill, who was a member of the 114th Battalion. Private Hill had been in France 18 months. He was not married, but he leaves a mother, two brothers and two sisters who proudly, but sadly, mourn his loss.

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