Hill, CLG
(1893 - 1916)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
2nd May 1893
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1907 - 1911
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
151, Rosendale Road, West Dulwich
REGIMENT
5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (Territorial Force)
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
5th November 1916
AGE AT DEATH:
23
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Butte de Warlencourt, Somme
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 14 A and 15 C
2nd Lieutenant Cedric Lloyd Graham Hill
Cedric was born on May 2nd 1893, the elder of two sons of theatre critic Graham Hill and his wife, Matilda. He joined the College in the summer of 1907, shortly after his fourteenth birthday, at the same time as his younger brother, Adrian. In the summer of 1911 he was a member of the cricket 3rd XI, but left Dulwich at the end of that year, taking up a place at a literary agency in central London.
After the outbreak of the conflict in the summer of 1914 he volunteered as a member of the Honourable Artillery Company, and proceeded to France with them that December. While serving near Ypres he was wounded three times, ultimately being invalided back to England in July 1915. A month later he was back with his regiment, albeit still in England, and the month after that was given a commission in the Durham Light Infantry. He eventually returned to France in early October 1916, when he was posted to the Somme. He died weeks later, however, on November 5th, leading his men in an attack on Butte de Warlencourt.
