Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

03/11/1914

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

17/02/1895

Place of Birth

Bayswater, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

School(s) Attended

Camberwell Grammar (Melbourne), Canterbury Grammar (Melbourne)

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Son of Ninian and Margaret Hill of Abbott Street, Sandringham, Victoria

Burial Place

No known grave.

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

14 Battalion AIF

Died (killed in action) on 8 August 1915, Gallipoli, Turkey aged 20 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 72, Canberra ACT
Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT

Hill first entered the Royal Military College on 22 June 1911 but was discharged on 23 October 1911. He re-entered the College on 7 March 1912 and would have been a member of the guard of honour at the Canberra naming ceremony on 12 March 1913. He graduated from RMC on 2 November 1914. Hill joined the 14th Battalion on 4 August 1915 in charge of the sixth reinforcements for the battalion. The 14th Battalion was on the slopes of Abdel Rahman Bair on Hill 100 near the Kaiajik Dere on 8 August 1915 when Hill was killed in action. His body was not recovered. Note that some sources (eg Lee) refer to his second name as 'Vivian'.

Description - height 6 feet 2 inches, weight 175 pounds, chest 36½ inches.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Roll of Honour Circular
AWM Collections Records : P00046.054, A04153
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)

The Duntroon Society, ‘The First Class’, Newsletter 2/2011