Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Major R. H. T. Hill, G.L.I.) nearly extremely fine £300-350

Ex D.N.W. 4 April 2001.

Rowland Henry Thomas Hill was born on 7 July 1846, the 8th child of The Rev. Charles Dilmot Hill, of Brighton. He was educated at Bedford Grammar School and afterwards abroad. Commissioned an Ensign in the Madras Infantry in January 1862, he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1864; Captain and Quartermaster in January 1874 and Major in January 1882. Served in the Burma Expedition 1885-87, becoming the Director of Transport to the force. For his services he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1886). Granted the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1886, he was appointed to that rank in January 1888. Owing to ill health Hill retired with the rank of Colonel on 17 May 1890. Returning to England, he was a J.P. for the Cinque Ports and an Alderman of the Kent County Council. Later, he was the President of the Margate Branch of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families’ Association. Colonel Hill died in Margate in 1922.

With copied gazette extract, obituary and service details.