Horace Hills was born in Doddington, Cambs, in 1898, ninth of the ten children of George & Naomi (nee Wadelow), and the third of their sons to die in the Great War.
After his father's death in 1904, Naomi remarried at the family moved to Chatteris where, in 1911, Horace was already a farm labourer at the age of just 12.
On 9 September 1914 Horace enlisted in the 9th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment and was sent out to the Western Front in 1915. Wounded in the arm, he returned to the front in February 1916 and was wounded again at the Battle of the Somme, and reported missing on 3 July 1916. Two months later he was listed as a prisoner of war at the Munster camp.
In January 1918 he was medically repatriated and went to the Military Hospital at Basingthorpe. In April he was discharged from the Army and returned to Chatteris. He died in the town on 9 November 1918 and was buried in the Chatteris cemetery.
We will remember them.
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