Augustus Hill (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Augustus West Hill CB (born April 1853) was a British Army officer.

Augustus Hill
BornApril 1853
Isle of Wight
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1873 to 1909
RankBrigadier-General
Commands held2nd Bn, the Middlesex Regiment
Welsh Division
Battles/warsSecond Boer War
Spion Kop
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath

Military career

Hill was commissioned into the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot on 1 January 1873.[1] Following the 1881 Childers Reforms, the 57th merged with the 77th (East Middlesex), and became 2nd Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment; Hill commanded the battalion at the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900, during the Second Boer War.[2] He was subsequently mentioned in dispatches[3] and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for this action.[4]

He became General Officer Commanding the Welsh Division in August 1908, shortly before retiring in January 1909.[5] He lived at Beckington Castle in Somerset from 1896 until 1901.[6]

Family

He married Alice Emma, and they had at least two sons, both of whom also became soldiers. Herbert (1880-1943), served in South Africa with his father, followed by the British Indian Army, and Gerald (1886-?), who joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and won a DSO in 1918.[7]

References
  1. "No. 23933". The London Gazette. 31 December 1872. p. 6510.
  2. Lock 2011.
  3. "Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)". Anglo-Boer War. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  4. "No. 27306". The London Gazette. 19 April 1901. p. 2696.
  5. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  6. "Castle history". S-E-A. Archived from the original on 30 May 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  7. Herbert Augustus Hill.

Sources
Military offices
New title GOC Welsh Division
1908–1909		 Succeeded by
Francis Lloyd
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