Orders, Decorations and Medals

Crickhowell Services Rendered Medal 1914-18, obv. coat-of-arms, inscribed, ‘Capt. P. A. Hill’, rev. Britannia, with shield, holding forth a wreath, 29mm., silver, good very fine £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Great War Tribute Medals.

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Ex Spencer Collection, D.N.W. 16 December 2003, lot 1169.

Philip Aubrey Hill was born in Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, on 13 December 1873. Educated at Uppingham and Caius College, Cambridge, he was employed as a Schoolmaster. Having served in the Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Brecknock Territorial Reserve Battalion on 15 September 1914. Captain Philip Aubrey Hill, attached 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers (Brecknockshire Battalion), entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 22 January 1917.

He was killed in action on 23 April 1917, aged 43 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was the son of Dr. P. E. Hill of Latham House, Crickhowell, Brecknockshire and husband of Ethel G. Hill of Crossway Cottage, Four Oaks, Warwickshire.

In The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914-1918, by C. T. Atkinson, it was reported that in the action at Monchy le Preux, ‘.... Captain Hill, who though wounded in the advance had remained with his company, was now shot by a sniper and killed, and many other casualties occured. Sold with copied research including service papers, m.i.c. and war diary extracts.