Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 03/11/1914
- Place of Enlistment
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Personal Details
- 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.
Unit and Rank Details
- Final Rank
- Lieutenant
- Final Unit
- 14 Battalion AIF
Fate
Died (killed in action) on 8 August 1915, Gallipoli, Turkey aged 20 years
Commemoration
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
Notes
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.
Sources
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