HILLIER, Harold Gregory
| Service Number: | 7176 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 October 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 25th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Redbank Plains, Queensland, Australia, 22 July 1893 |
| Home Town: | Goodna, Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Beauvoir, France, 3 October 1918, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hawthorn Victory Lodge Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Oct 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7176, 25th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Nov 1917: | Involvement Private, 7176, 25th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Canberra embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 16 Nov 1917: | Embarked Private, 7176, 25th Infantry Battalion, SS Canberra, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Harold Gregory Hillier (Service No:7176) enlisted in the AIF on 3 October 1917 and served with 21st Reinforcements 25th Infantry Battalion. Private Hillier embarked from Sydney for Southampton on SS Canberra, and was hospitalised in Suez with Influenza. On 3 October 1918, Privae Hillier was at Beauvoir, France when he was KiA by a shell. Pte G D McDowall 3691 (Australian Red Cross Society Files AWM) stated 'I saw Hillier (A, Ccy) after he had been killed instantly by shell (face and body mutilated) at Beauvoir October 3rd about 200 yds from JOT about 7.00am. He was in Lewis Gun Section. He was buried near where he fell. Hillier was nuggety, fair, short, about 23/24 years old, married man with 3 children. Came from Goodna near Brisbane Queensland. 21st Reinforcements'.
Born in 1893 at Redbank Plains nr Ipswich QLD, Harry was the eldest of ten children of Alfred Henry Hillier (b1870 at Redbank Plains nr Ipswich, QLD) and Mahala Evelyn Josey (b1869 in Ipswich, QLD). Alfred (a Teamster) and Mahala married in 1892 at Redbank Plains, where they settled and raised their family and Alfred worked as a Teamster. Mahala died in 1918.
Harry worked as a Carter at Goodna nr Brisbane, QLD where in 1914 he married Elsie Pearl Connor (b1894 in Rockhampton, QLD). Following Harry's death in 1918, Elsie lived in Goodna and Brisbane where she raised her children and died in 1974.