TSR/751 Sergeant George Hilton, Army Service Corps

George Hilton is noted in Chailey Parish Magazine in October 1914 as serving his King and Country.  In October 1915 he appears as S[taff] S[ergeant] Major G Hilton with the Army Service Corps in France and by December 1915 he is still in France but by now promoted to RSM with the ASC. 

By January 1917 there appears to have been a change of fortunes and he is again a Staff Sergeant Major, moving further down the ranks in December 1917 when the parish magazine notes him as a sergeant. 

George Hilton appears to have served throughout the war, his final entry in July 1919 noting him as a sergeant with the ASC. 

Chailey resident Reg Philpott remembered that the Hilton family use to live “down the common” and that George Hilton minded the pumps at The Five Bells pub.

Chailey's Men - updates

I've added additional information to the pages for Ivor Grantham, George Hilton, Thomas Homewood, George Kemp and Wilfred Lockyer. I've also found service records for John William Harmer and William Alfred Lansdowne and I'll be updating their pages shortly.

John Harmer was a long serving Territorial who joined Sussex RGA in 1911 and went on to win the Military Medal.

William Lansdowne was a Londoner who was working as a waiter when he joined the King's Royal Rifles Corps. His wife was working at the Girls' Heritage in Chailey which explains his conection with the parish, although he is not mentioned in Chailey Parish Magazine. He was killed in action in 1916 leaving a three month old daughter.

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