Name
Benjamin Alfred Hill
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/12/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
6053
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
23rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BARLEY (ST. MARGARET) CHURCHYARD
Spec. Memorial.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Barley Village Memorial, St Margaret's Church Memorial, Barley
Pre War
Alfred HILL was born in 1889 in Hilton, Huntingdonshire, son of Sarah Rose Hill.
1891 Census records Benjamin aged 1, living with his Grandparents George and Jane Hill and their six children, in Gravel Way, Hilton, Huntingdonshire Benjamin.
His mother Sarah married Joseph Thurley, on 16th August 1899, at St John the Baptist Church, Hoxton, Hackney, London.
1901 Census, Benjamin (11), is at school, still living with his Grandparents George and Jane Hill and their daughter Lydia, at 9 Victoria Terrace, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire. His mother is recorded as Rose Thurley married to Joseph Thurley, and living in Shorditch, London, her three brothers Lot Hill (32), Danial Hill (23) and Tom Hill (21) are living with them. Joseph Thurley died in 1902, aged 39.
Sarah remarried in late 1903 in Shoreditch, London to David George Trigg.
1911 Census records Benjamin aged 21, working as Milk Carrier, living with his mother Sarah and Stepfather David George Trigg, at 46 Peerless Buildings, Peerless Street, City Road, London.
Wartime Service
Benjamin enlisted at Bedford, posted to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) on the 10th March 1916, and issued with the service No. 6053, on completion of his training he was posted to France, in July of that year.
On the 24th September 1916, he was wounded in the hand and after treatment at a Base Hospital was soon back in the trenches. On the 20th November 1916, he was gassed and after treatment at a Base Hospital in Boulogne was evacuated to the Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, where he arrived on the 1st December 1916. He passed away on the 7th December 1916, because of the gassing and was brought home to Barley, Herts, where he was buried in St Margaret Churchyard, Barley, he was given a semi-military funeral on the 13th December 1916.
Additional Information
His effects of £6-09s-06d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3, went to his mother Sarah Trigg.
*1 SDITGW. Give Born (Location) as Hilton, Herts, Hilton is in Huntingdonshire not Hertfordshire.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Paul Johnson, & Adrian Pitts
