BILL, RODNEY EDWARD, 2nd Lient., 38th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. 2nd s. of Edward Walker Bill, of Radnor Lodge, Cobham Road, Gravesend, by his wife, Lucinda, dau. of Gwynne Humphreys b. Gravesend, co. Kent, 1 Jan. 1886; educ. Margate College was a Bank Clerk volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war, and joined the Royal West Kent Yeomanry in Aug. 1914: served in Egypt and in Gallipoli, taking part in many engagements; proceeded to England (being torpedoed on his way there) to train for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. in July, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following Nov., and was killed in action near Arras while on patrol duty 26 Aug. 1918. Buried in the British Military Cemetery. Blairville, Arras; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5