Arthur John "Smiler" Gill

On the night of Sunday 21st May 1944 he had walked his fiancée, Alice Diment, back to her residence at New Barn Farm. On his way home he was shot dead. An American sentry, Private Quinton Roosavelt Gregson fired the fatal shots. At the inquest he stated that he had challenged three times, then fired as Arthur Gill ran away. Afterwards he knocked on the door on Mr E F Cutler of Grove Lane, saying "I have killed a man". Another soldier present at the time declined to give evidence, as was his right at an inquest. Arthur Gill was buried at St Nicholas Church, Abbotsbury.