Military History

Officers’ Training School at Roseville NSW as A/Cpl. 22.8.1916. Hill was promoted to A/Sgt 3.10.1916- 1.2.1917. He worked for several months as an instructor at the Wireless, Telegraphy and Signallers School at Moore Park Engineering Depot, Roseville, NSW before being transferred back to WA to Blackboy Hill 14.7.1917. Hill was transferred to the 13^th Reinft. Pioneer Bn. and promoted to 2^nd Lieut. in WA.
Embarked Albany per SS ‘Port Darwin’ 8.5.1918.
Roll Rank 2^nd Lieut.
Roll Unit 13^th Reinfts. Pioneer Bn.
Hill disembarked at Southampton 16.7.1918 and marched in to Sutton Veny. He was transferred to the AIF Educational School, Cambridge, for a Course of Instruction 7.10.1918. He marched out to the Australian HQ  Administration in London 30.10.1918. Hill marched out to the Training School at Brightlingsea 4.11.1918 and was transferred to the  General List– Educational Services  30.10.1918. Hill was promoted to Lieut. 23.1.1919 and marched out to Tidworth 31.1.1919. He was attached to the Demobilised Dept. in  at Australian HQ London  4.2.1919. Hill was detached for duty in Egypt and embarked  per HT ‘Canberra’. He disembarked at Port Said  and was taken on strength as Deputy Assistant Director of Education AIF 14.3.1919, where he was responsible for the Organisation and Adminstration of  Education to 16,000-17,000 troops in Egypt and Palestine. Hill was listed for return to Australia and embarked at Kantara per HT 'Delta'  2.8.1919.
Embarked  Kantara per HT ‘Delta’ 2.8.1919.
Disembarked Fremantle 26.8.1919
Discharged/ Appt. Terminated 8.9.1919.
Final Rank Lieut. Aust. HQ Egypt.
Medical Condition NK.
Awards and Medals Returned Services Badge and British War Medal only, as he had no active service.
Notes Hill worked at Guildford Grammar School as a master (GGS Honour Roll) He returned to Victoria in the 1940s.
Photos SS Port Darwin. Photographer unknown, photograph source slv picture number bs004061
             SS Delta. Photograph, postcard sourced  from Great Southern Cards

Information Source
AWM Embarkation Roll David Clarence John Hill
Great Southern Cards. SS Delta. Photograph, postcard sourced and used with permission of  from Great Southern Cards, www.greatsoutherncards.com.au/
Guildford Grammar School Honour Roll
NAA: B2455 Hill David Clarence John.
SLV picture number bs004061. SS Port Darwin. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the State Library of Victoria

 

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