Ian Gordon Gill

Ian Gill
Born (1919-11-09)9 November 1919
Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
Died 23 November 2006(2006-11-23) (aged 87)
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1938 - 1972
Rank Major-General
Commands held 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
7th Armoured Brigade
Battles/wars World War II
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.

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.[1] After the War he served in Palestine and in 1957 became Commanding Officer of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards.[1] He was made commander of Victory College at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1961 and commander of 7th Armoured Brigade in 1964.[1] 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.[1]

In retirement he became Director of the Thorney Abbey Restoration Fund and lived at Thorney near Ely in Cambridgeshire.[1]

Family

In 1963 he married Dr Elizabeth Vivian (Sally) Rohr, a consultant neurologist; they had no children.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Obituary: Major-General Ian Gill The Times, 23 November 2006
  2. Obituary: Major-General Ian Gill Daily Telegraph, 14 December 2006
Military offices
Preceded by
William Jackson
Assistant Chief of the General Staff
19701972
Succeeded by
Frank Caldwell
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