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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 491

(x) Six: Sergeant-Major P. S. Hill, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, late Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry and later Royal New Zealand Air Force

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1000 Pte. P. S. Hill. Th'Croft's M.I.), unofficial rivets between state and date clasps; 1914-15 Star (9/934 Sjt. P. S. Hill. N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals (9/934 Sjt. P. S. Hill. N.Z.E.F.); War and New Zealand Service Medals 1939-45 (P. S. Hill. 402929 R.N.Z.A.F.), contemporarily engraved naming, mounted as worn, good very fine (6)

Philip Sydney Hill was born in New Zealand on 24 June 1882 and served with Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry during the Boer War, being discharged at his own request on 5 June 1901. He was a farmer upon his joining the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on 15 December 1914 and served with the New Zealand Artillery on Gallipoli, in Egypt and on the Western Front, 1916-17, some two years and 265 days overseas. Hill was discharged on account of illness contracted during service on 3 February 1918. Returned to the fold with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War, Hill died on 27 July 1966; sold together with complete copied Service Record.

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£220