Albert Gill
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sergeant Albert Gill Template:Post-nominals (8 September 1879 – 27 July 1916)[1] 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.
Gill was born in Birmingham, then in Warwickshire, and was employed as a postal worker with the GPO.[2]
Battle of Delville Wood
Gill was 36 years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:[3]
Gill is buried at Delville Wood Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Somme, France.[4]
The Medal
Gill's Victoria Cross is in the Lord Ashcroft VC Collection at the Imperial War Museum.[5]
Memorials
Gill is commemorated by a plaque attached to post box B66 52, a Victorian-era wall post box, outside City Hospital in Birmingham, England.
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- 1879 births
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- British Battle of the Somme recipients of the Victoria Cross
- British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Military personnel from Birmingham, West Midlands
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Burials at Delville Wood Cemetery
- People from Ladywood