Name
George Frederick Hill
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/10/1914
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7221
East Surrey Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 18 and 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Little Wymondley
Pre War
George was born in 1883, in Luton, Bedfordshire. The son of James Charles Hill and Elizabeth Amelia Hill (nee Phillips). Georges mother Elizabeth died in 1887.
His father James remarried in 1890 to his second wife Annie Maria Day. The 1891 census recorded George aged 8, at school and living at the Gas House, Bedwell Plash, Stevenage, with his parents, 3 brothers and 4 sisters. Then in 1901 as living with his parents, 3 brothers and 3 sisters in Little Wymondley, His occupation is given as a Labourer, Horse keeper. By 1911 George was boarding at his sister Bertha and brother in-law James’s home in Little Wymondley. His occupation is given as a General Labourer.
Wartime Service
George enlisted in London. He was posted to the East Surrey Regiment with the service number 7221. He disembarked with his Battalion in La Havre, France, on the 16th August 1914.
The Battalion War Diary records “Private 7221 George Hill killed in Action on the 21st October 1914.” He has no known grave and is Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial to the missing.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
