John Hill
Rank: Private
Service No: M2/191312
Place of Birth: Cove, Dumbartonshire
Date of Death: 24/06/1917
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Army Service Corps (2nd Water Tank Coy., Mechanical Transport)
Memorial: Pont-D’Achelles Military Cemetery, Nieppe
Additional information: Son of Archibald and Jeanie McFie Hill of Roseneath, Dumbartonshire; husband of Annie Knox Hill of 1 Anderson Place, Rutherglen, Glasgow, late of Paisley.
Rutherglen Lore information: Husband of Mrs. Hill, 1 Anderson Place, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Annie Hill.
1901 census information:
Address: Blackhall Farm Cottage, Paisley.
Father: Archibald (60) farm servant, born about 1841 in Skipness.
Mother: Jane (58) born about 1843 in Rothesay.
Sister: Jeanie (23) dressmaker, born about 1878 in Dumbartonshire.
Self: John (21) domestic coachman, born about 1880 in Dumbartonshire.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. J. Hill, Rutherglen. Official intimation has been received by Mrs J. Hill, 1 Anderson Place, Rutherglen, that her husband, Private John Hill, M.T., A.S.C., was killed in action on June 24. Before enlisting he was chauffeur to Mr Wm. MacFarlane, J.P,. Rutherglen.
Also commemorated on the memorial in Rutherglen Old Parish Church.