John Hill (Indian Army officer)
John Hill CB DSO was a senior British Indian Army officer during the First World War.Biography
Born in Bangalore on 14 January 1866, John Hill was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1887, subsequently transferring to the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs. He served in Burma and India during the Chin Lushai Expedition, between 1889 and 1890, the Second Miranzai Expedition, in 1891, the Chitral Expedition, in 1895, and the Tirah Campaign, between 1897 and 1898.
During the First World War he saw action in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. He became General Officer Commanding, 52nd Infantry Division in September 1917 and saw action again, initially in the Sinai and Palestine campaign and then, from April 1918, on the Western Front before handing over his command in September 1918.
Hill was appointed Aide-de-camp to King George V in 1916 and was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. He retired in 1920 and died in London on 8 January 1935.
