In Memory Of

ST. HILL, GEORGE HERBERT

Service Details
Age:
 52
Date of Birth:
 1865-06-23
Rank:
 Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment:
 Royal North Devon Hussars
Date of Death:
 1917-07-08
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, by a sniper near Beaucamp and Villers Pluich
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 E. 28.
Cemetery:
 NEUVILLE-BOURJONVAL BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
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. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918