Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group to Major H. C. N. Hill, Welsh Guards, late Private, North Rhodesian Rifles

MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R.; 1914-15 STAR (8 Pte., N. Rhodesian Rif.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2. Lieut.); 1939-45 STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS; JUBILEE 1935, mounted as worn, generally very fine and scarce (9)

M.C., London Gazette, 4 December 1918; Lieut., Welsh Guards, Spec. Res. attd. 1st Bn. ‘This officer took over command of a company ten minutes before the attack. Throughout the whole advance he showed the greatest coolness and grasp of the situation. When a re-adjustment of the line became necessary he organised it with the utmost skill, after having collected all his wounded, which was done under heavy machine-gun fire. The small number of casualties suffered by his company was due to his gallantry and fine example.’

Lieutenant Hugh Charles Norwood Hill served in German South West Africa in 1915, as a Private in the North Rhodesian Rifles. He was commissioned 2nd Lieut., 31 October, 1917 and served in France and Flanders with the Welsh Guards from March 1918, to February 1919. He was employed with the Welsh Guards in the Second World War with the temporary rank of Major.