HILLS, Frederick Thomas
| Service Number: | 5946 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Northcote, Victoria, Australia, 21 June 1895 |
| Home Town: | Nyora, South Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Nyora and Jeetho State Schools, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | School Teacher |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood Plot XVII. Row B. Grave 18. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 5946, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 5946, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents: - Richard Hills and Louisa Jane Gleeson married 5 Aug 1889 in Victoria, Australia.
Biography contributed by Andreena Hockley
"Killed in action in Flanders on 4th October, 1917, Private Frederick Thomas Hills, only son of Mr. Richard Hills, of Plant-street, Malvern, and half-brother of Mr. George T. Frazer, first male assistant at School 1402, Errol-street, North Melbourne.
He was born at Northcote on 21st June, 1895. He attended the elementary school at Nyora for some years, and afterwards the school at Jeetho, where he gained the Merit Certificate. In 1910, he became a junior teacher at Korumburra; in 1914, he was head teacher at Glenlee; in July, 1915, he enlisted.
After a period of training in this State and in England, he took part in the fighting in France, being a participant in the famous attack at Bullecourt, out of which he emerged unhurt. Later, while holding a captured trench, he was wounded in both arms by shell splinters. After several weeks in hospital, he resumed duty, being attached to a bombing and sniping school.
Having again sought the battle-line, he was shot through the heart by a machine gun, probably in the fighting for the Passchendaele Ridge. His letters give a graphic description of his experiences in the charge at Bullecourt. As a teacher, Mr. Hills' record shows him to have been earnest, forceful, sympathetic, and interested in his work."
Source: The Education Department's Record of War Service, Victoria, 1914-1919.
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