DOB/DOD: August 13, 1864 (Hartford, CT) – unknown date of death
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried
ENLISTMENT: May 29, 1893, in New Haven, Connecticut
OTHER: After his enlistment with the Marine Corps ended, he joined the Army and served with Company B, 5th Infantry, and Company E, 15th Infantry. Discharged September 1, 1903, for disability at Ordinance Barracks, Benicia, California. No other information is known.
MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION
AWARDED FOR ACTIONS DURING: Spanish-American War
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Marine Corps
ASSIGNED TO: U.S.S. Nashville (PG-7)
GENERAL ORDERS: War Department, General Orders No. 521 (July 7, 1899)
PRESENTED ON: August 15, 1899
AGE ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT: 33
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Frank Hill, United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism in action on board the U.S.S. Nashville during the operation of cutting the cable leading from Cienfuegos, Cuba, 11 May 1898. Facing the heavy fire of the enemy, Private Hill displayed extraordinary bravery and coolness throughout this action.
From The Hartford Courant February 25, 1915
WEBMASTER NOTE: His father, “I. Hill” in the article above, may be Ichabod Hill in the 1880 census in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Married to Mary, with a son, Frank, 5 years old. If that’s the right Frank Hill, he would have been born in roughly 1875. If he joined the Marine Corps in 1893, he would have been 18 years old.
Frank Hill’s burial location is unknown. He is one of 314 Medal of Honor recipients whose final resting place is a mystery.
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