Years of service 1938 - 1972 Battles and wars World War II Battles/wars World War II Service/branch British Army | Name Ian Gill Rank Major general Died November 23, 2006 Allegiance United Kingdom | |
Born 9 November 1919
Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom ( 1919-11-09 ) Commands held 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
7th Armoured Brigade Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross & Bar | ||
Major-General Ian Gordon Gill CB OBE MC & Bar (9 November 1919 – 23 November 2006) was a British Army officer who became Assistant Chief of the General Staff.
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Military career
Educated at Repton School, Gill was commissioned into the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in 1938 and fought in World War II at the Dunkirk evacuation and at the Normandy landings and then in North West Europe. After the War he served in Palestine and in 1957 became Commanding Officer of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards. He was made commander of Victory College at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1961 and commander of 7th Armoured Brigade in 1964. He went on to be Deputy Military Secretary in 1966, Head of the British Defence Liaison Staff in Canberra in 1968 and Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operational Requirements) in 1970 before retiring in 1972.
In retirement he became Director of the Thorney Abbey Restoration Fund and lived at Thorney near Ely in Cambridgeshire.
Family
In 1963 he married Dr Elizabeth Vivian (Sally) Rohr, a consultant neurologist; they had no children.