Mentioned in dispatches
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To be mentioned in dispatches describes a member of the armed forces of a nation whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gal
A Victory Medal 1914–18 with a Mention in Dispatches device
Formal notice of a soldier in the Motor Machine Gun Service mentioned in dispatches, by Field Marshal Sir John French for gallantry at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, signed by Secretary of State for War Winston Churchill.
A Croix de Guerre (awarded to Col. Brébant) with four acknowledgments: 1 bronze palm 1 silver gilt star 1 silver star 1 bronze star
John Dill
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Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill 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 G
Sir John Dill in Egypt, 18 February 1941
General Dill at the Atlantic Conference aboard Prince of Wales in 1941 (third from the right in second row/directly above Churchill).
General Sir John Dill, GOC I Corps, inspecting soldiers digging trenches at Flines, France. Stood three away from Dill is his BGS, Brigadier Arthur Percival.
General Sir John Dill, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), inspecting parachute troops at the Central Landing Establishment at RAF Ringway near Manchester, December 1940.