Lieutenant Robert William HILL (1902)

1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment
Born 4 February 1884 in Tottenham, London
Died of wounds 31 July 1917, aged 33
Buried at White House Cemetery, St. Jean-Les-Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium; also commemorated on the Peterborough war memorial.

Robert Hill was the son of John Cathles (or Cathels) Hill and Matilda, née Mose, of Highgate, London. He was married to Marjorie Jane, née Scott-Miller; their son and two of their nephews, as well as Robert’s brother, were all at Merton.

He was educated at Felsted School, where he was a keen athlete, and took his BA at Merton in 1906 and his MA in 1909. After university he began a career as an estate agent in North London.

Having served as a Lieutenant in the 4th (Hunts) Volunteer Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment, he was made a Second Lieutenant in the Cambridgeshire Regiment on 11 August 1915, and served in France and Belgium.

He died of wounds received in the attack on Hill 19, near St Julien, on 31 July 1917. His headstone has his rank as Captain.