Name
Arthur Hill
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/02/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12173
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Memorial Plaque, Memorial Hall, Bovingdon
Pre War
Arthur Hill was born in 1895 in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, the son of Joseph and Sarah (Gurney) Hill and one of five children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living in Rattle House Cottages, High Street, Bovingdon. They remained there in 1911 when he was working as a butcher’s assistant. His parents later lived at New House Farm, Bovingdon.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at Watford and went to France on 30 July 1915, probably with the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, later transferring to the 4th Battalion.
He was killed in action at Miraumont on the Somme on 14 February 1917. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £11 and pay owing of £5 11s 3d. No record of pension has been found. Brother of Private Charles Henry Hill who was killed in action on 30 Oct 1917 and is also commemorated on the Bovingdon memorial. N.B. Medal Index cards give his battalion as 6th and his entry into France as 30 July 1915. CWGC and SDGW give 4th battalion, but Bedfordshire Regiment records indicate that 4th did not go to France before 1916.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox, Dick West, www.dacorumheritage.org.uk, www.bedfordregiment.org.uk.
