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NAME:                      Billing, Claremont R
RANK:                      Driver
UNIT:                      Royal Field Artillery
BATTALION ETC:             215th Brigade  (originally in 1st Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery)
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         850340  (formerly 1253)
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    Died of malaria & pneumonia 9th April 1919 at 8 Meadow Street, Landport, Portsmouth
                            (arrived back in UK 27th March 1919)
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Kingston Cemetery, Portsmouth, UK (Not formally recognised by CWGC and is now listed in their United Kingdom Book of Remembrance)
OTHER INFORMATION:         Born Southsea. Portsmouth. On soldiers papers he is living at 64 Collingwood Road, Southsea.
                           Enlisted 16th August 1914.
                           Son of Timothy and Rebecca Ann Billing of 8 Meadow Street, Commercial Road, Portsmouth.
                           Three other brothers also died - Albert, Archibald, & Robert H.