Name
Harold Hills
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/12/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
GS/13949
Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
H. 31.
Egypt
UK & Other Memorials
Thundridge War Memorial
Pre War
Harold was born in mid-1887 at Wing in Bucks. His father was a gardener and in 1891 they were living at Linslade in Bedfordshire. In 1901 he was a stable boy at Linslade at the house of a surgeon, Mr Harris. He has not yet been found in the 1911 census He enlisted in Hertford. Army records say that he lived in Leighton Buzzard, and give his parent as Lucy Hills 4 Dudley St Leighton Buzzard. He does not appear on the Leighton Buzzard War Memorial.
Wartime Service
From his Medal Card we find that he enlisted into the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, with the Service No 1872 and he was in the Corps of Drums. He was then transferred/posted to the Company of Dragoons with the Service No D/14850 and then into the Duke of Lancasters Own Yeomanry with the Service No GS/13949. It also shows he arrived in Egypt on the 16th July 1915. He died of Pneumonia on the 11th December 1918. The fact that he died after the war had ended points to him dying of disease, possibly Spanish Flu or wounding.
Additional Information
CWGC Inscription: Son of Lucy Hills, of 4 Dudley Street, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
Acknowledgments
Maurice Charge, Stuart Osborne
