Bombadier John Clifford Hiley

Remembrance Day 2020. We remember another Hiley killed in WW1.

John Clifford Hiley was born in Leeds on 6th August 1894. In 1911 he was living at home with his parents John (a Railway Guard) and Louisa, sister Ethel and brothers Clarence and Leonard. John Clifford was a Labourer. He married Mary Elizabeth Mylan in early 1914 in Hunslet, Leeds and a son John was born later that year.

John Clifford was a Bombardier with the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery in A Battery, 102nd Brigade. He was killed in action on 13th June 1917, aged 22 and is buried at Hop Store Cemetery near Ypres in Belgium.

John Clifford Hiley's grave
Included courtesy of International War Graves Photography Project #46770518 (Find A Grave)

Hop Store cemetery
From the website Rutland Remembers with thanks
https://www.rutlandremembers.org/location/1044/hop-store-cemetery