Private Cecil Killips, 201499
- Batt - 4
- Unit - Lincolnshire Regiment
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 12/4/1897
- Died - 10/10/1917
- Age - 20
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Robert Killips. He was a moulder by trade, and after enlisting embarked for France on the 17th March 1917. He fought in France and Belgium and was a first class machine gunner and bomber, he was killed by a shell near Lens. His brother William also fell.
Leicestershire Project Findings
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - Ii V 3, Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
- Unit - Lincolnshire Regiment
- Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
- Burial Commemoration - Philosophe British Cem., Mazingarbe, France
- Born - Lismay, Co. Galway, Ireland
- Enlisted - 26/3/15 In Stamford, Lincs
- Place of Residence - North Luffenham, Rutland, England
- Memorial - ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NORTH LUFFENHAM, RUTLAND
