Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O., M.C. group of eight awarded to Colonel E. F. J. Hill, Royal Engineers

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar, obverse centre slightly depressed; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (Lieutt., R.E. Bl. S. & M.); Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Lieut., R.E.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt., 1st S. & M.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class, by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted court style for display, slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (8) £3000-3500

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘... in connection with Military Operations in Egypt’.

M.C. Edinburgh Gazette 29 June 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915; 15 August 1917; 27 August 1918; 22 January 1919; 5 June 1919.

Order of the Nile London Gazette 26 November 1919.

Ernest Frederick John Hill was born on 6 August 1879 and received his first commission on 23 December 1898. He was promoted to Lieutenant in July 1901; Captain in December 1907; Major in June 1916; Lieutenant-Colonel October 1924, and attained the rank of Colonel in July 1927.

Hill served on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1901-02, and in Tibet, 1903-04. In the Great War he served in France/Flanders, 16 October 1914-7 December 1915; in Mesopotamia, 1 January 1916-24 December 1917; with the Egypt Expeditionary Force, 8 January-31 October 1918. For his services he was five times mentioned in despatches, awarded the D.S.O., M.C. and Order of the Nile; he was granted the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 June 1917.

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