| Surname: | Hill |
| Initials: | A |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | P/996 |
| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the 1915 Star, Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 24/8/1915. Shown as 24/8/15 on medal roll page B82. Formerly Army Cyclist Corps. Commissioned 2/Lieut. Army Cyclist Corps, Albert Hill, London Gazette 30146, page 6244, dated 22 June 1917. Commissioned 2/Lieut. Royal Flying Corps, 29/5/1917. Later Lieutenant 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Home address: 9 Copley Hill, Granelly Hill, Birmingham. Albert Hill. Extract from the Birmingham Daily Gazette 1 July 1939. LIFE OF EXCITEMENT. Chief Inspector Hill was born at Lichfield and joined the Military Mounted Police during the war. He received a commission in the Army Cyclist Corps, but this did not yield sufficient excitement for him, so he transferred to the Royal Air Force and returned to France as a flying officer. Mr Hill was one of eight brothers who served in the forces in every theatre of war. As he recalls - from Mons to Mesopotamian, from the Dardanelles to the Dogger Bank, and from Siberia to the Somme. Demobilised in 1919, Mr. Hill was posted to the CID on his return and since then has been continuously engaged in that department, being engaged in investigating many important crimes. including a long firm fraud case, which became known as "The 40 Thieves Case," because 38 men were implicated. Extract from the Birmingham Daily Post 1 July 1939. Two Chief Inspectors Retire. Chief Inspector Alfred Hemming and Chief Detective Inspector Albert Hill retired from Birmingham City Police Force yesterday, each having completed twenty six years of approved service. Mr Hill was born in Litchfield, at the age of seventeen he went to South Wales and joined Glamorganshire Yeomanry. He joined the city police force in 1912 and when war broke out he joined the Military Mounted Police. Later he was commissioned in the Army Cyclist Corps and afterwards transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He was one of eight brothers who served in the war. On his return to Birmingham he was posted to CID. |