Philip Charles Palin
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Philip Charles Palin
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1919
6 1/4 in. x 4 1/2 in. (158 mm x 115 mm) image size
Commissioned, 1919
Photographs Collection
NPG x169794
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- Walter Stoneman (1876-1958), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 18527 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.
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Susan Marlow
10 March 2020, 22:58
Obituary for Major-General Sir Philip Charles Palin
Major-General Sir Philip Charles Palin who died yesterday at his residence at Hove at the age of 72, came of a family with a remarkable record of service in the Indian Army for in it he had two of his brothers rose to distinction as did their father, Lieutenant-General C.T. Palin. Before them. Sir Philip had experience of frontier campaigning in his younger days and during the War commanded Indian troops in Gallipolis, Egypt and Palestine.
He was born in Edinburgh on August 8, 1864, and went to Clifton College. Gazetted lieutenant in the Cheshire Regiment from the Militia in April, 1886, he joined the 2nd Cheshires in Burma, where he took part in the operations which eventually restored order in the Upper Province. In June 1888, he transferred to the Indian Army, being posted to the 14th Kings George’s Own Sikhs, and now known as the 1st Battalion of the 11th Sikh Regiment. During the 10 following years he served in the Hazara expedition of 1888, the Waziristan operations, 1894-95, and with the Tochi Field Force, 1897-98. He was appointed adjutant in April 1891 and obtained his captaincy in April 1897. In November 1899, he became adjutant of a battalion of the Calcutta Volunteer Rifles, with which he remained five years, being promoted major in April 1904. Eight years later he reached the rank of Lieutenant colonel and in September 1912, he was appointed to command the 15th Sikhs.
At the beginning of the War, however, he was commanding his old regiment, which went to Egypt in the 29th Indian Brigade, and thence to Gallipoli at the end of April 1915. Colonel Palin’s Sikhs fought upon the Helles front being engaged in the second and third battles of Krithia and in the action of Gully Ravine. In August the Indian troops went to Anzac, and during the battle of Sari Bair Colonel Palin commanded a column. In September he succeeded to the command of the brigade, and after the evacuation of the peninsula and return to Egypt he was responsible for a section of the Suez Canal. Defenses. In November 1916, he led out a small column, which drove off a Turkish detachment.
In June 1917 he was appointed to command the 75th Division, composed of Indian and British Territorial troops, and led it at the third battle of Gaza and during the advance into Judean hills, which included the capture of Junction Station under the battle of Nebi Samweil, and attack upon El Jib. In March 1918, his division was reconstituted receiving several recently raised Indian battalions, but it rendered good service at the battle of Megiddo in September, when it captures Et Tire.
Colonel Palin was promoted Major-General in June 1918. He had been created a C.B. in 1916, and was made a C.M.G. in 1918 and promoted to a K.C.M.G. in 1919. His services were mentioned eight times in dispatches. He was appointed to command the 3rd (Lahore) Division in March 1920, and retired from the Army in 1921. He had been Colonel of his old regiment since January 1920.
He married Diamantine Harriet, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel G. Elliot, in 1899. His wife died in 1934, and in August 1935, he married Gladys, widow of Dr. John Love. The funeral will be at Hove Cemetery on Monday after service at Holy Trinity Church at 10:45.