Barnes - Nairobi South Cemetery

CWGC - Captain, Uganda Medical Service, who died on Saturday, 22nd July 1916. Age 26. Son of John Edward and Edith Harriett Hillbrook, of 7 Priory Road, Bournemouth. Nairobi South Cemetery, Grave Ref: VI C 1

Ancestry: Captain Wallace Hillbrook died at Nairobi, British East Africa, on July 22nd [1916] aged 24. He was the son of Mr. J. E. Hillbrook, of Sutton, Surrey, and was educated at Clifton College and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated as M.B. and B.C. in 1915, and at St. George's Hospital, taking also the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.Lond. in 1915. After acting as house-phiysician at St. George's he went to Africa as medical officer of the Churchl Missionary Society's hospital at Mengo, in Uganda, and at the time of hlis death was employed as medical officer of the Congo Carrier Corps.