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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 144

An unusual pair awared to A. J. H. Hill, H.M.'s Consul & Charge d'Affaires to San Salvador, late Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed whilst on home leave by enemy action during the Exmouth Blitz on 25 February 1941

British War Medal 1914-20 (Payr. S. Lt. A. J. Hill. R.N.R.); Coronation 1937, good very fine (2)

Arthur John Harding Hill was born on 22 September 1887 and was a Deputy Superintendent of a Mercantile Marine Office. He was appointed Acting Vice-Consul at Calais on 1 November 1914 and given a commission in the Royal Naval Reserve, earning only the British War Medal for his services.

After the Great War he joined the Foreign Office and was assigned for service at Callao from March 1921 and was Acting Consul there in two periods. He was made Acting Consul at La Paz, Bolivia in March 1925 and thence Consul at Vigo, Spain in 1926. He would also serve at Tallinn, and was placed in Charge of the Consulate at San Salvador from 16 July 1935.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, he remained in-post but travelled home for leave in early 1941. He was visiting Exmouth and had the bad fortune to be killed by a direct hit of three high explosive bombs that fell on 25 February 1941 in the St Andrew's and Victoria Road areas; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£200

Starting price
£110