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Andrew Hill

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Andrew's Pension Record image courtesy of WFA

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Edinburgh
  • Service no: 7345
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
  • Unit/Ship: 2nd Battalion
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death:
  • Date of Death: 25.09.1915
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 11

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 23 Hilltown, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:
  • Father:
  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:

    Rosalind (Rose) Fullerton Hill, nee Dickson, 23 Hilltown, Dundee

  • Children:

    Andrew, born 17.10.1904 & Helen Dickson Hill, born 21.02.1906

More about Andrew Hill

Andrew has no known grave but is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial. His Daughter Helen married Claude Wood Baird in Dundee in 1924. The couple later emigrated to New Zealand. Their son Claude “Jock” Baird was born in Dundee in 1925 and died in New Zealand in 2004.

Andrew Hill   7345  Royal Scots

HILL___Killed in action, on the 25th September, Private Andrew Hill, 7345, 2nd Royal Scots, dearly beloved husband of Rose Dickson. – Inserted by his sorrowing wife and family, 23 Hilltown. Also by his sisters-in-law, Mrs George Taylor and Mrs Charles Adam, 10 St Salvador Street.

Dundee People’s Journal 20th October 1915

Additional information kindly supplied by Joelle Gilbert and Michael Caldwell

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