Name
Benjamin Alfred Hill
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
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BARLEY (ST. MARGARET) CHURCHYARD
Spec. Memorial.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Barley Village Memorial, St Margaret's Church Memorial, Barley
Pre War
Born Hilton. Resident Royston. Enlisted Bedford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment on the 10th March 1916 and was posted to France in July of that year. On the 24th September he was wounded in the hand and after treatment at a Base Hospital was soon back in the trenches. On the 20th November he was gassed and after treatment at a Base Hospital in Boulogne was evacuated to the Warncliffe Hospital in Sheffield where he arrived on the 1st December. He passed away on the 7th December as result of the gassing and was brought home to Barley where he was given a semi-military funeral on the 13th December.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson, & Adrian Pitts
