Lance Corporal Arthur Wilfred Lavington Hill of the 7th Company 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment clocked off duty at 5:30pm at the Glanmire Road Train Station (today's Kent Station) where he worked with the railway transport staff. The 21 year old was in civilian clothes and was suspected by the IRA of being an intelligence officer.
Hill made his way towards Tivoli where he spent the evening in the company of a female companion. At 9:30pm he left the lady's house and was walking near the Tivoli Level Crossing when a number of men fired at him from behind a stone wall.
An anonymous call was made to the Fire Brigade after the shooting to inform them of a dead body at the Tivoli Crossing on the Lower Glanmire Road. A British Army patrol were informed and they found the Portsmouth man dead with two bullets in his head.
Lance Corporal Hill was buried in Fareham Cemetery by Portsmouth Harbour in England.
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