John Dill

Sir John Greer Dill
Sir John Dill in Egypt, 18 February 1941.
Born	(1881-12-25)25 December 1881 Lurgan, County Armagh, United Kingdom
Died	4 November 1944(1944-11-04) (aged 62) Walter Reed General Hospital, United States
Buried at	Arlington National Cemetery, United States
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1901–1944
Rank	Field Marshal
Unit	Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
Commands held	Staff College, Camberley British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan Aldershot Command I Corps Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War 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) Légion d'honneur (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 (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently in Washington, D.C., as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission and then Senior British Representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS), played a significant role during the Second World War 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 a Greer from Woodville, Lurgan. Always intended for a career in the services, Dill attended the Methodist College Belfast,Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. On 8 May 1901 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 1st battalion the Leinster Regiment and was posted to South Africa to see out the Second Boer War.