
Private Albert Arthur Hill, 12th Bn., King’s Royal Rifle Corps – Prisoner of War
03/11/2025
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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
