Name
Alfred Hill (Poss Hills)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33844
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Standon Village Hall, Standon, St Mary's Church Memorial, Standon, St John’s Church Memorial, High Cross, Thundridge War Memorial, Not on the Ware memorials
Biography
Private Alfred Hill, service no. 33844 in the 4th Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment, died 23rd April 1917 at the age of 35 years.
He is commemorated in Bay 5 of the Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery in Arras, France.
Alfred Hill was born in Thundridge in 1882 to George and Annie Hill. In 1901 the family are living in Wadesmill with father George shown as a carpenter and Alfred himself as a general labourer. By 1911 they are at Barwick, with George then working as a jobbing gardener and Alfred as a bricklayer’s labourer.
He is said to have enlisted at Bedford, (this may be a mistake for Hertford) into the Bedfordshire Regiment and was in the 4th Battalion when killed at the second battle of the Scarpe, where 4th Beds suffered 260 casualties that day.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Maurice Charge, Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird, Di Vanderson, Jonty Wild
