On this Remembrance Sunday let me introduce you to my third cousin once removed George Hills. He was born in Chatteris, Cambs, in 1886, the second of ten children of George and Naomi (nee Wadlow). In 1891 the family was across the county border in the Huntingdonshire town of Ramsey but by 1901 they were back in Cambs, living in Doddington.
George was clearly a regular soldier as he was serving as a private with 2nd Beds in 1911, stationed in Bermuda/Jamaica, a much better billet than his final one. As his second cousin Benjamin Langford also served with 2Beds, we know that they arrived in Belgium in October 1914. The Regiment's War Diaries (http://bedfordregiment.org.uk/index.html) fill in the details.
George died on 12 November 1917 and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord.
George's younger brothers Charles and Horace also lost their lives in the Great War.
We will remember them.
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