Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private A. A. Hill, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was wounded and taken Prisoner of War at Cambrai on 27 March 1918 during the German Spring Offensive, and died of his wounds in Germany on 16 November 1918

British War and Victory Medals (R-33532 Pte. A. A. Hill. K.R. Rif. C.) both in crushed card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (Albert Arthur Hill) in card envelope and outer transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mrs. A. Hill, 128 Leathwa..., Battersea, S.W.’, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140

Albert Arthur Hill was born in Lewisham on 21 October 1897 and attested for the 20th Training Battalion whilst still under-age. Subsequently posted to the Rifle Brigade and then to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he served with the 12th Battalion, K.R.R.C. during the Great War on the Western Front, and was wounded and taken Prisoner of War at Cambrai on 27 March 1918. He died of his wounds in Germany on 16 November 1918, five days after the Armistice, and is buried in Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany.

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