Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Three: Private P. C. Hill, 1/6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, killed in action, France, 19 March 1916

1914-15 Star (3684 Pte., Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3684 Pte., Glouc. R.); Memorial Plaque (Percy Charles Hill)

Three: Able Seaman L. C. Hill, Royal Navy, killed in action on H.M.S. Exeter, battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, all unnamed, generally extremely fine (7) £400-500

Private Percy Charles Hill, 1/6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment was killed in action, France/Flanders, 19 March 1916, aged 35 years. He was buried in the Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps. He was the son of Henry George and Emma Collyer Hill, of ‘Pen-y-Bryn’, Clifton Road, Abergavenny and a native of Bristol. With forwarding slip for the British War and Victory Medals. .

Able Seaman Leonard Charles Hill, R.N., was killed in action, serving on the heavy cruiser, H.M.S. Exeter, against the ‘pocket battleship’ Graf Spee, at the battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939, aged 39 years. He was the son of Percy Charles Hill and Daisy Hill (nee Knight). His name is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. With named condolence slip and card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs K. Evans, Penybryn, Clifton Road, Abergavenny, S. Wales’; also with damaged registered envelope.