Alan Richard Hill later Hill-Walker, VC (born Northallerton 12 July 1859 – 21 April 1944) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
The regiment was deployed to South Africa in 1879 for service in the Anglo-Zulu War and he saw action at the Battle of Ulundi in July 1879.
Hill was 21 years old, and a lieutenant in the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot (which had become the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment under the Childers Reforms by the time the award was gazetted), British Army during the First Boer War when the following deed took place on 28 January 1881 at the Battle of Laing's Nek, South Africa, for which he was awarded the VC.
Being unable to lift that officer into the saddle, he carried him in his arms until Lieutenant Baillie was shot dead.
There were two sons: Hill's medals were bought in 2015 by the Ashcroft Trust and are displayed in the Imperial War Museum.