ISBN: 9781156314234

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: … More...

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Distinguished Service Order (DSO) (1915)Mentioned in Despatches (8 times in World war I)Distinguished Service Medal (United States) (21 November 1944, posthumously)Légion d'honneur, degree of Officer (France)Croix de guerre (France)British War MedalVictory MedalCommander of the Order of the Crown Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Distinguished Service Order (DSO) (1915)Mentioned in Despatches (8 times in World war I)Distinguished Service Medal (United States) (21 November 1944, posthumously)Légion d'honneur, degree of Officer (France)Croix de guerre (France)British War MedalVictory MedalCommander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)Croix de Guerre (Belgium)Officer of the Order of the Crown of RomaniaGrand Cross, Order of St Olav (26 November 1943)Order of Polonia Restituta, 1st class (22 July 1941)Distinguished Service Medal (United States) Field Marshal Dill at the Atlantic Conference aboard the Prince of Wales in 1941 (third person from the right in second row/directly above Churchill) Equestrian statue of Sir John Dill over his grave in Arlington. Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO (25 December 1881 - 4 November 1944) was a British commander in World War I and World War II. From May 1940 to December 1941 he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently in Washington, as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission and then Senior British Representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff, played a significant role during World War II in the formation of the "special relationship" between the United Kingdom and the United States. Born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland in 1881, his father was the local bank manager and his mother was an American from Kentucky. Always intended for a career in the services, Dill attended Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. On 8 May 1901 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st battalion of the Leinster Regiment and was posted to South Africa to see out the Second Boer War. Dill was appointed regimental adjutant on 15 August 1906, hav. More: Books, , Prince-of-Waless-Leinster-Regiment-Officers~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<