John Greer Dill

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Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill (1881-1944) was a senior British Army officer with service in both World War I and World War II. From May 1940 to December 1941, he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently in Washington, D.C., as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission and then Senior British Representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff, played a significant role during World War II in the formation of the "Special Relationship" between the United Kingdom and the United States.