Major-General John Hill CB DSO (14 January 1866 – 8 January 1935) was a senior British Indian Army officer during the First World War.

Born in Bangalore on 14 January 1866, John Hill was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

[2] He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in February 1887,[3] subsequently transferring to the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs.

[2] During the First World War he saw action in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915.

[2] He was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in October 1915[4] and became general officer commanding (GOC) 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in September 1917 and saw action again, initially in the Sinai and Palestine campaign and then, from April 1918, on the Western Front before handing over his command in September 1918.