Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private J. Hill, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who died of wounds received in the “German Spring Offensive” in April 1918, while serving in the 1st Battalion

1914-15 Star (15886 Pte., K.O.Sco. Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (15886 Pte., K.O. Sco. Bord.), two digits in number on the first double-stamped, good very fine (3) £120-150

Joseph Hill, who was born in Reddish, Manchester and enlisted in Hyde, Cheshire, died of wounds received in the “German Spring Offensive” on 30 April 1918, while serving in the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium.