Augustus Hill (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Augustus West Hill, CB (4 May 1853 – 2 January 1921) was a British Army officer.

[1] Following the 1881 Childers Reforms, the 57th merged with the 77th (East Middlesex), and became 2nd Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment; Hill commanded the battalion at the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900, during the Second Boer War.

[2] He was subsequently mentioned in dispatches[3] and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for this action.

[4] He became General Officer Commanding the Welsh Division in August 1908, shortly before retiring in January 1909.

Herbert (1880-1943), served in South Africa with his father, followed by the British Indian Army, and Gerald (1886-?