Major Maurice Hilliard Tomlin OBE (28 June 1868[1][2] – 10 August 1945)[3] was a British Army and police officer.
[4] He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Green Howards in February 1888.
[5] He was promoted lieutenant and Adjutant in June 1891[6] and served with the West African Frontier Force on the Niger in 1897–1898, for which he was mentioned in despatches.
[7] He was promoted captain in April 1900[8] and served with the mounted infantry in the closing stages of the Second Boer War in 1901,[9] being again mentioned in despatches for gallantry in June 1901[10] and taking command of a battalion as a Local Major in January 1902.
[11] Following the end of the war, he received a brevet promotion as major in the South African Honours list published on 26 June 1902,[12] and returned to the United Kingdom on the SS Briton three months later.