Among the general officers availlable for high command under Lord Gort there is none on whom stronger hopes are based by his colleagues than General Sir John Dill, Go.c. Aldershot Command. Born in 1881, in time to see service in the South African War with the Ist Battalion, The Leinster Regiment, he was, like Ironside, a Staff College student at the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. All his service was on the staff. Outstanding episodes were his period as G.S.O1 of the 37th Division—his old commander, Sir Hugh Bruce Williams, a very exigent master, never tires of singing his praises—and that when he was at GH.Q as GS.O.1 and Bri-he exercised a strong steadyings influence. He has since commanded Headquarters in India, and has been Director of Military Operations at the War Office. Septembe: to October, 1937, he was G.O.C. Palestine and Transjordan. It is of interest to recall that he took the leading role on the British side in the Anglo-French Staff talks of 1936.
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