The name Hillman occurs frequently in the records of Britons who fought in both world wars and various other conflicts around the world.
The Commonwealth War Graves[1] website lists 144 names of Hillmans and Illmans.
These are spread over the period 1914 to 1945 in 111 different cemeteries in 23 countries, the majority as to be expected in France, the UK and Belgium.
There are people listed as follows (Table 1):
Table 1 Hillman nationalities in the CWG list
The greatest number of deaths in any one year are over 25 each in 1917 and 1918, and 20 in 1944. No deaths are recorded for Hillmans prior to 1914 or after 1945. There are 87 deaths recorded in World War One, and 57 in World War Two.
As is to be expected for the period in history the great majority are male, with the only females bar one being “Civilian War Dead”. The one was in the Auxiliary Transport Service (ATS).
The great majority are men aged from 17 to 58, with the average at 28 years old. Ages range from eight years old to 75, the youngest being a boy in the Civilian War Dead, the two oldest also in the same category.
There are 74 different Regiments listed, with some overlap e.g. Royal Navy and Royal Navy Reserve listed separately.
The cemeteries and memorials that include Hillmans can be found in the following locations (Table 1):
Table 2 Locations of the name Hillman in Commonwealth War Graves
Source:
[1] https://www.cwgc.org/search-results?term=Hillman&name=Hillman&fullname=Hillman