{"id":2096,"date":"2018-07-20T08:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T00:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/?page_id=2096"},"modified":"2023-08-17T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T03:38:19","slug":"hilliard-harry-christopher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/?page_id=2096","title":{"rendered":"HILLIARD Harry Christopher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date of Enlistment<\/td>\n26\/04\/1915<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthplace<\/td>\nBroome Western Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Next of kin<\/td>\nMother, Mrs M Hilliard, Broome, Western Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Occupation<\/td>\nLabourer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Age on Enlistment<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rank<\/td>\nPrivate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unit<\/td>\n11th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fate<\/td>\nRTA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date of Fate Event<\/td>\n09\/04\/1919<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Returned to Broome post WWI<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other Information<\/td>\nBrother to John Hilliard<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

[su_quote cite=”North West Echo, 8th January 1916″]Letter from H. Hilliard: Private Harry Hilliard, who was admitted to the First Australian General Hospital on Dec, 15, suffering from defective vision, recently wrote to his mother in Broome : \u2014 ‘ I am not having the best of times \u2014 living on tinned dog and hard biscuits, and it is snowing in the trenches, where I am alongside John, who is well, as is also Arthur. When the Howe company landed there were about half of them shot down. It is a terrible sight \u2014 dead men all over the place. It is a wonderful place, and I have had all the experience that I wanted and won\u2019t go looking for any more. [His excuse to his mother for enlisting was that he wanted experience !] It is ‘ lovely?’ in the trenches with bombs and shells flying about. . . The night we landed we all slept in holes in the hills, just like a lot of lizards. The lice and flies nearly eat us. This is the place to come for experience.'[\/su_quote]<\/p>\n

[su_quote cite=”North West Echo, 11th March 1916″]Harry Hilliard wrote to his sister on Dec. 28.\u2014 lam back in Egypt, in No. 1 general hospital. I have been wounded in the foot, and a piece of a bomb hit me in the eye; I have lost the sight of my right eye. I have been back from the front two weeks today, and am just about right again. . Charlie Banfield and Bruce McDonald are here with me. I haven’t had enough yet. The doctor wanted to send me home, but I told him, I didn’t want to go as I hadn’t been here long enough to be sent back. I haven’t had a letter since I left W.A. I went down to the beach and carried the mail about a mile thinking there might be some for me but there, wasn\u2019t a bloomin thing. Poor Loton Annear was shot about three days before we left ; he had been recommended for the V.C. for some brave act.[\/su_quote]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of Enlistment 26\/04\/1915 Birthplace Broome Western Australia Next of kin Mother, Mrs M Hilliard, Broome, Western Australia Occupation Labourer Age on Enlistment 19 Rank Private Unit 11th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement Fate RTA Date of Fate Event 09\/04\/1919 Returned to Broome post WWI Yes Other … Continue reading HILLIARD Harry Christopher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":377,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2096","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2096\/revisions\/2589"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}