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Sgt. Walter Hill
Royal Navy MV Tasmania
from:Portsmouth
(d.30th Oct 1942)
Walter Hill served with the Royal Marines during World War 1 and 2.
He enlisted on the 19th of Oct 1914 at Deal and served on the following ships:
HMS Dryad 20 June 1915
HMS Glory 7 Oct 1918
HMS Crescent 28 Jan 1920
HMS Coventry 12 May 1920
HMS Egmont 16 Aug 1921
HMS Cornwall 19 Dec 1933
He then retired from the Marines with a full pension until WW2, when he re-enlisted on 21st of Aug 1939. During WW2 he was a DEMS gunner on various merchant ships but was killed in action on MV Tasmania as part of convoy SL-125.