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Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE HERBERT St. HILL

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal North Devon Hussars

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1917

Age 52 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEUVILLE-BOURJONVAL BRITISH CEMETERY

E. 28.

France

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Photographer: Johan Pauwels

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Territorial Decoration, Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of the Rev. Canon Woodford St. Hill; husband of Annabel St. Hill (nee Maryon-Wilson), of 10, Wilbraham Place, London, S.W.1. Served in the Royal North Devon Hussars for eighteen years and fought in the Matabele, Angoni, and South African Campaigns. Also served at Gallipoli, where he commanded the 6th Bn. Lincolnshire Regt. at the evacuation of Suvla Bay.
  • Personal Inscription BEND THE KNEE, BOW THE HEAD HONOURING OUR GLORIOUS DEAD
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Buried or commemorated at

NEUVILLE-BOURJONVAL BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 209
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