Name
Edward Albert Hill
1 June 1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/06/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
56713
Lancashire Fusiliers
17th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AVELUY WOOD CEMETERY, (LANCASHIRE DUMP), MESNIL-MARTINSART
II.I.4
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Welwyn Village Memorial, Welwyn and Woolmer Green Roll Of Honour Welwyn
Pre War
Edward Albert Hill was born in Welwyn, Herts, on 1 June 1899 in Welwyn, the eldest son of Edward and Alice Hill (nee Wrenn). He was one of seven children, although one had died by 1911. He was baptised on 6 August 1899 at St Mary's, Welwyn.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at The Gravel Pits, [Codicote Road], Welwyn, where his father was working as a Gardener's Labourer. The remained there in 1911.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted in Watford and served in France with the 17th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers.
He was killed in action on 1 July 1918 during an attack to retake the high ground of Aveluy Wood on the Somme which had been occupied by the Germans during the German Spring Offensives of 1918.
He is buried at Aveluy Wood Cemetery (Lancashire Dump), Mesnil-Martinsart, France, along with two others from the Lancashire Fusiliers who died the same day.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £5 16s 3d. A pension card exists but gives no indication of any pension received.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
Paul Jiggens, Welwyn and District History Society - www.welwynww1.co.uk, Brenda Palmer
