Name
Walter Rowland Hill
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/09/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
1933
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
1st/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SHENLEY (ST. BOTOLPH) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Shenley Village Memorial, St Albans School Memorial, St Botolph's Church Memorial, Shenleybury (now lost) (*1)
Pre War
Son of Walter Frederick and Elizabeth Hill, baptised 26 Jun 1892,
The census: 1901 Census living with parents at Rookery Yard Cottages, Shenley, 1911 Census , living with parents at New Road, Shenley. Occupation Teacher
Educated at St Albans School.
Recorded as born in St Albans and living in Shenley when he enlisted in Culham, Oxfordshire.
Wartime Service
Died of wounds, Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, Hampshire
Additional Information
*1 Believed named on the lost memorial. Back pay and gratuities £23 4s 5d not shown who paid to. Brother of Norman Stanley Hill who served and fell in Belgium.
Walter's grave (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
IN LOVING MEMORY OFWALTER ROWLAND HILL
THE BELOVED SON OF
WALTER FREDERICK AND ELIZABETH HILL WHO DIED SEPT. 13TH 1916 CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL, ALDERSHOT.
AGED 24 YEARS HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
Part of the inscription is obscured in our image, but we believe it to be verse 1 and 4 from Evening Prayer.
SAVIOR, BREATHE AN EVENING BLESSING
ERE REPOSE OUR SPIRITS SEAL;
SIN AND WANT WE COME CONFESSING,
THOU CANST SAVE AND THOU CANST HEAL.
SHOULD SWIFT DEATH THIS NIGHT O'ERTAKE US,
AND OUR COUCH BECOME OUR TOMB,
MAY THE MORN IN HEAVEN AWAKE US,
CLAD IN BRIGHT AND DEATHLESS BLOOM.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams
Gareth Hughes
