HILL Thomas

  • First Name(s):
    Thomas 
  • Surname:
    HILL
  • Service Number:
    19109
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    11th October 1915
  • Age At Death:
    24
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, Grave D. 114.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Mary Ann Hill, 51 Pedmore Rd., Lye, Stourbridge, and the late Samuel Hill

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HILL Thomas Is Named On These Memorials

Lye and Wollescote War Memorial
Lye Christ Church Window

Further Information About HILL Thomas

Thomas Hill volunteered for the Worcesters and joined the 9th (Service) Battalion. After training the battalion was sent out to Gallipoli to reinforce the troops on the peninsula. This second landing took place on the 6th August 1915. The actual landing was uncontested but the attempt to advance to the ridge was met by fierce Turkish resistance. The Worcesters suffered huge losses in the next four months, made worse by heat and disease. Trench warfare continued among the gullies and woods and among the wounded was Private Thomas Hill. He was taken by hospital ship to a military hospital in Egypt. where he died on the 10th November.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society.