Lance Corporal Norman Gustav Hillbrick
- Rank
- Lance Corporal
- Service number
- 5326
- Unit
- 11 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Died of Wounds
- Place of death
- 3 ACCS Grevillers, France
- Date of death
- 6 May 1917
- Age
- 25
- Plaque number
- M416B
- Co-located plaques
- M416 - PTE Alfred Hodges
- M416A - PTE Alfred Wood
- Dedicated by
- Family on 18 August 2018
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Lance Corporal Norman Gustav Hillbrick was born at South Melbourne, Victoria in February 1892. His parents were Gustav Wilhelm Hillbrick and Jessie Sarah Hillbrick and he was the second youngest of eight children.
Norman attended Korumburra state school in Victoria, before the family moved to North Perth in 1905.
Prior to enlistment in December 1915, Norman served for four years as a volunteer in 11 Australian infantry regiment attaining the rank of sergeant. In civilian life, he worked as a bootmaker.
After training at 3 training battalion, he left Fremantle in April 1916, aboard HMAT Aeneas bound for Egypt.
He later joined 11 battalion in France and was promoted to lance corporal in April 1917, while serving in ‘B’ company in the field.
On 6 May 1917, he was wounded in action and died later that day.
Lance Corporal Norman Gustav Hillbrick, service number 5326 of 11 Battalion, died of wounds on 6 May 1917 at 3 Australian casualty clearing station, Grevillers, France.
He was 25 years of age and is buried at Grevillers British Cemetery, Picardie, France.