Major General Walter Pitts Hendy Hill, CB, CMG, DSO (10 June 1877 – 1942) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.
[2] He left Southampton in March 1900 on the SS Briton to serve with the 2nd battalion in the Second Boer War in South Africa,[3] where he was posted in Natal and Transvaal, taking part in engagements at Rooidam.
[4] He stayed in South Africa throughout the war, which ended with the Peace of Vereeniging in June 1902.
[5] He served in the First World War as commander of a company of Gentlemen Cadets at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, having served in this position since January 1913,[6] as a deputy assistant quartermaster general in France from 1915, as an assistant adjutant and quartermaster general in France from 1916 and as an assistant quartermaster general in France from 1917.
[7] His son James Hill commanded 3rd Parachute Brigade during the Second World War.