DIED 24/9/1919 WW1 MESOPOTAMIA MEDALS 2249 HILL 6TH BN DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT ARMY

Offered is a British War and Victory Medal impressed named 2249 PTE. F.T.G HILL. DEVON.R. Comes with copies of M.I.C., medal roll, Commonwealth War Graves certificate and a photograph of the grave.

Frederick Thomas George Hill was born in 1897 and pre-war was living in Devon, he served his war with the 6^th Battalion Devonshire Regiment with the service number 2249 and then 265672. However, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as serving with the 10th Battalion. The service number range for the 6th Battalion is 265,001 - 290,000.

The 6^th Battalion Devonshire Regiment was sent to India on 9/10/1914 landing at Karachi on 11/11/1914. It moved to Mesopotamia on 5/1/1916 remaining there for the rest of the war.

Hill was discharged on 10/4/1919 and unfortunately died 24/9/1919, however he was entitled to a Commonwealth War Grave as his death was war related, as outlined in the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, Monday 29 September 191:

Frederick Hill, the victim of the Goodleigh bicycle accident last week, was buried at Barnstaple, yesterday, with full military honours. He was buried in Barnstaple Cemetery, Devon

The British Empire forces suffered 85,197 battle casualties in Mesopotamia. There were also 820,418 hospitalisations for non-battle causes, mostly sickness. Of those, 16,712 died, 634,889 were treated and put back on duty in-theater, and 154,343 were permanently evacuated from the theatre. Thousands more died out of theatre from injuries and sickness incurred here or died in Ottoman captivity. Total British military deaths in the Mesopotamian Campaign, including from the latter causes, were 38,842 (1,434 officers and 37,408 men), including 28,578 from sickness and other non-battle causes (including prisoners).