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Private Albert Arthur Hill, 12th Bn., King’s Royal Rifle Corps – Prisoner of War
03/11/2025
First World War Army United Kingdom Prisoners of War BERLIN SOUTH-WESTERN CEMETERY
By Noonans Mayfair

United Kingdom

Rifleman A A Hill
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Wounded and taken Prisoner of War at Cambrai on 27 March 1918 and died of his wounds in Germany on 16 November 1918.

Albert Arthur Hill was born in Lewisham on 21 October 1897 and attested for the 20th Training Battalion whilst still under-age.

Subsequently posted to the Rifle Brigade and then to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (K.R.R.C.), he served with the 12th Battalion, K.R.R.C. during the Great War on the Western Front, and was wounded and taken Prisoner of War at Cambrai on 27 March 1918.

He died of his wounds in Germany on 16 November 1918, five days after the Armistice.

He is buried in Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany
Berlin South-Western Cemetery © CWGC.
British War and Victory Medals to R-33532 Pte. A. A. Hill. K.R. Rif. C. © Noonans Mayfair Ltd.
Memorial Plaque to Albert Arthur Hill © Noonans Mayfair Ltd.