Kate’s notes: It is not really clear from this notice whether Percy Gilliland and his father lived in Australia and served in India and Burma, or whether Mrs. Hitchins was the only family member living in Australia.
   Burmah (or Burma), once under British rule, is now known as Myanmar.

The Argus
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
12 January, 1895

DEATHS.

GILLILAND -On November 23, at Mandalay, Burmah, of malarial fever, in his 29th year, Percy W. Gilliland, Esq., D.P.W., Indian Civil Service, son of the late J. C. Gilliland, Esq., lndian Civil Service and only brother of Mrs. B. A. Hitchins, Heidelberg.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013