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In St Nicholas' Churchyard, Cottesmore, Rutland.

Hedley was born in Cottesmore, and was one of eight children of Henry and Mary Hollis; the Hollis family still lives in the village. The 1881 census showed Hedley to be in South Leith, Edinburgh, unmarried, and a soldier at Piershill Barracks.

I couldn't find a report of his death in the Grantham and Stamford newspapers, and he's not recorded on the Rutland county memorial (unveiled November 1904), so the news of his death may not have been widely reported and to have taken some time to reach Cottesmore. The gravestone looks as though it may have been made to commemorate only Hedley and his father - none of his seven siblings or his mother are named on it.

Berenice
According to the Kaplan roll, "1001 Tpr. H. Hollis" served with the Mashonaland Division of the BSAP and his QSA bore the clasps Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal, Rhodesia and South Africa 1901. Marginal remark is "Died in Salisbury". He is not recorded in Palmer/SAFF so it appears he had left the service prior to his death.
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IL.

LinneyI wrote: it appears he had left the service prior to his death.

Which explains why his death didn't get the coverage back home it would have if he'd still been serving. Many thanks, IL.