Question: The Field Marshal that British Army officer James Hill served under during the Battle of France had received what metal in an earlier battle?

Context articles: FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney
Claud Jacob
John Michel
Charles Yorke (British Army officer)
Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn
James Hill (British Army officer)
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford

Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 September 1788 – 28 June 1855), known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy Somerset, was a British Army officer.
 As a junior officer he served in the Peninsular War and the Hundred Days, latterly as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington.
 He also took part in politics as Tory Member of Parliament for Truro before becoming Master-General of the Ordnance.
 He became commander of the British troops sent to the Crimea in 1854: while his primary objective was to defend Constantinople he was ordered to besiege the Russian Port of Sevastopol.
 After an early success at the Battle of Alma, a failure to deliver orders with sufficient clarity caused the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.
 Despite further success at the Battle of Inkerman, a piecemeal allied assault on Sevastopol in June 1855 was a complete failure.
 Raglan died later that month from a mixture of dysentery and clinical depression.
Field Marshal George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, KT (9 February 1666 – 29 January 1737), styled Lord George Hamilton from 1666 to 1696, was a British soldier and Scottish nobleman and the first British Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal.
 After commanding a regiment for the cause of William of Orange during the Williamite War in Ireland, he commanded a regiment in the Low Countries during the Nine Years' War.
 He then led the final assault at the Battle of Blenheim attacking the village churchyard with eight battalions of men and then receiving the surrender of its French defenders during the War of the Spanish Succession.
 He also led the charge of fifteen infantry battalions in an extremely bloody assault on the French entrenchments at the Battle of Malplaquet.
 In later life he became a Lord of the Bedchamber to George I and was installed as Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
Field Marshal Sir Claud William Jacob, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (21 November 1863 – 2 June 1948) was a British Indian Army officer.
 He served in the First World War as commander of the Dehra Dun Brigade, as General Officer Commanding 21st Division and as General Officer Commanding II Corps in the Fifth Army.
 During the Battle of the Somme, his corps undertook the British attack during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge in September 1916 and the subsequent assault on St Pierre Divion during the Battle of the Ancre in November 1916.
 He remained in command of II Corps for the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917.
 After the War he commanded a corps of the British Army of the Rhine during the occupation there and then served as Chief of the General Staff in India.
 He went on to be General Officer Commanding Northern Command in India before temporarily becoming Commander-in-Chief, India and then taking over as Military Secretary to the India Office.
Field Marshal Sir John Michel GCB, PC (1 September 1804 – 23 May 1886) was a British Army officer.
 He commanded the 6th Regiment of Foot during the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851 and served as Chief of Staff of the British Army's Turkish contingent during the Crimean War in 1854 before transferring to India where he commanded the Malwa Field Force which pursued Tatya Tope in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny.
 He then commanded the 1st Division at the Battle of Taku Forts in August 1860 during the Second Opium War and took part in the burning of the Old Summer Palace at Peking in October 1860 as a reprisal for the torture and murder of British prisoners before being appointed Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong in 1861.
 He later commanded the forces in British North America playing a key role in the organization of the militia volunteers in resistance to the Fenian raids invasions in 1866.
 His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief of Ireland in 1875.
Field Marshal Sir Charles Yorke GCB (7 December 1790 – 20 November 1880) was a senior British Army officer.
 He fought in many of the battles of the Peninsular War and of the Hundred Days, seeing action as an extra aide-de-camp to Major-General Frederick Adam, commander of the 3rd Light Brigade, at the Battle of Waterloo.
 After that he became Deputy Commander of the British forces in South Africa during the latter stages of the Eighth Xhosa War.
 He went on to be Military Secretary, ultimately earning promotion to field marshal for his competence in that role.
Field Marshal Hugh Henry Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (6 April 1801 – 16 October 1885) was a senior British Army officer.
 He served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army who were seeking to secure the expulsion of the forces of Mehemet Ali from Syria during the Egyptian–Ottoman War.
 He then fought with the French Army at the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Inkerman and at the Battle of Mamelon during the Crimean War.
 During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 Rose was given command of the Central Indian Field Force and secured the defeat of the Indian rebels at Jhansi in April 1858, at Lahore in May 1858 and at Gwalior in June 1858.
 He went on to be Commander of the Bombay Army, Commander-in-Chief, India and then Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.
Brigadier Stanley James Ledger Hill {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} & Two Bars, MC (14 March 1911 – 16 March 2006) was a British Army officer, who served as commander of the 3rd Parachute Brigade, part of the 6th Airborne Division, during World War II.
 Born in Bath, Somerset, Hill was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst before joining the British Army in 1931 and being commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers.
 He commanded a platoon for a short period, and was then attached to the command post of Field Marshal Lord Gort during the Battle of France in May 1940, where he oversaw the evacuation of Brussels as well as the beach at De Panne during the evacuation of Dunkirk.
 After a brief period of time in the Irish Free State, he volunteered for parachute training and joined the 1st Parachute Battalion, and was its commanding officer when its parent formation, the 1st Parachute Brigade, was deployed to North Africa.
Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War.
 After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines, which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines placed by the Royal Engineers' tunnelling companies beneath German lines, which created 19 large craters and was described as the "loudest explosion in human history".
 He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then as Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928.
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort & Two Bars, (10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946) was a senior British Army officer.
 As a young officer during the First World War he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of the Canal du Nord.
 During the 1930s he served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (the professional head of the British Army).
 He is most famous for commanding the British Expeditionary Force sent to France in the first year of the Second World War, which was evacuated from Dunkirk.
 Gort later served as Governor of Gibraltar and Malta, and High Commissioner for Palestine and Transjordan.
Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772 – 3 June 1860) was a British Army officer and politician.
 After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Irish Rebellion of 1798, he became Commanding Officer of the Grenadier Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards during the disastrous Walcheren Campaign.
 He served as a brigade commander at the Battle of Vitoria and then at the Battle of Roncesvalles on 25 July 1813 when his brigade took the brunt of the French assault and held its position for three hours in the early morning before finally being forced back.
 During the Hundred Days he commanded the 2nd Guards Brigade at the Battle of Quatre Bras in June 1815 and again at the Battle of Waterloo later that month when light companies from his brigade played an important role in the defence of Château d'Hougoumont.
 He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and, after leaving Ireland in 1831, he was elected as Whig Member of Parliament for Poole in Dorset and was one of the few military men who supported the Reform Bill, for which he was rewarded with a peerage.