Kilbride Parish Church War Memorial
James Smyth Hill
Date of Birth – 3rd September 1893 (GRONI reference U/1893/5/1001/13/350)
Place of Birth – Burnside
Date of enlistment – ca. August 1915
Address at time of enlistment – Dalmuir, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Next of Kin – Lizzie Todd (sister)
Address of next of kin – Cogry House, Doagh
Trade or Calling – dyer and later machinist
Service No. WR/323640 with the Royal Engineers, 21011 with the Royal Scots Fusiliers and 27183 with the Machine Gun Corps
Unit – Royal Engineers Inland Water Transport, formerly Royal Scots Fusiliers and Machine Gun Corps
Rank – Sapper
Died – 22nd August 1918
Place of Death – Canterbury, Kent
Age at Death – 23
Buried – Grave reference M. 217 Canterbury Cemetery, Kent, England
Commemorations – Ballyclare War Memorial and Kilbride Parish Church
Marital status – Single
Parents – Thomas Hill (died 1st July 1901 GRONI reference D/1901/5/1001/10/414 and Catherine Hill (née Smith or Smyth)
Parents married on 25th May 1884 (GRONI reference M/1884/P1/2060/1/89)
Siblings – Agnes (born 1st October 1885, died 29th March 1889), Mary (born 16th May 1889, died 14th February 1890), Eliza or Lizzie born 10th May 1891, (James)
(from 1901 and 1911 censuses Kate Hill was recorded as a widow and she had written 4 children born alive and two still alive in 1911)
Records Available
National Archives of Ireland
Census Records
Notes
In the 1901 census Lizzie Hill and James Hill were living with their grandmother, Mary Jane Smyth, together with their aunt Mary Smyth. She was recorded as being Church of Ireland whereas the two grandchildren are Presbyterian and specifically Kilbride Presbyterian Church. A short time after the census their father died.
In the record for the headstone on James S Hill’s grave there is mention of a Mrs L. Todd, Cogry House, Doagh. Lizzie Hill married William Todd on 6th July 1911.