(1881-12-25)25 December 1881 Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland
Died
4 November 1944(1944-11-04) (aged 62) Washington, D.C., United States
Buried
Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, United States
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1901–1944
Rank
Field Marshal
Service number
6659
Unit
Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
Commands held
Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1940–41) I Corps (1939–40) Aldershot Command (1937–39) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan (1936–37) Staff College, Camberley (1931–34) 2nd Infantry Brigade (1923–26)
Battles/wars
Second Boer War First World War Arab revolt in Palestine Second World War
Awards
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches (8) Army Distinguished Service Medal (United States) Officer of the Legion of Honour (France) Croix de guerre (France) Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Officer of the Order of the Crown of Romania Grand Cross of the Order of St Olav (Norway) Order of Polonia Restituta, 1st Class (Poland)
Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO (25 December 1881 – 4 November 1944) was a senior British Army officer with service in both the First World War and the Second World War. From May 1940 to December 1941 he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently served in Washington, D.C., as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission and then Senior British Representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff.
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States Public Health Service Building in Washington, where Field Marshal JohnDill represented the British half. The CCS was constituted from the British...
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already submitted such a proposal to General Sir JohnDill, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Dill, aware of Churchill's intentions, approved Clarke's...
boarding school in England, the Roman Catholic Oratory School, founded by John Henry Newman. From there, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, but left around...
in Algiers. In December 1944, following the death of Field Marshal Sir JohnDill, Wilson was relieved as Supreme Commander, promoted to field marshal on...
of the 1936 Arab uprising. During the Second World War, Clarke joined JohnDill's staff, where he proposed and helped to implement an idea for raids into...
Frank Gehry and two artist friends of Hopper's, Chuck Arnoldi and Laddie JohnDill, in 1981. In 1987, he commissioned an industrial-style main residence...
Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994. Diller was born on February 2, 1942 in San Francisco, California, to Michael Diller and...
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