Alan Richard Hill
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Alan Richard Hill later Hill-Walker, VC 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. He won the VC for his actions on 28 January 1881 at the Battle of Laing's Nek during the First Boer War.
Picture taken about 1884 at site of the Battle of Rorke's Drift allegedly showing VC recipients including Gonville Bromhead and James Henry Reynolds. Man in rear wearing a Foreign Service helmet has been identified as Alan Richard Hill VC
The 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1755. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1881.
Drawing by a soldier depicting the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in September 1759
Richard Lambart, 7th Earl of Cavan, Colonel of the regiment during the Napoleonic Wars
The Battle of Plattsburgh in September 1814
Non-commissioned officers of the 58th Regiment in New Zealand, c.1858