Career
Educated at Repton School, Gill was commissioned into the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in 1938 and fought in World World War II at the Dunkirk evacuation and at the Normandy landings and then in North West Europe. After the War he served in Palestine and in 1957 became Commanding Officer of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards. He was made commander of Victory College at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1961 and commander of 7th Armoured Brigade in 1964.
He went on to be Deputy Military Secretary in 1966, Head of the British Defence Liaison Staff in Canberra in 1968 and Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operational Requirements) in 1970 before retiring in 1972.
In retirement he became Director of the Thorney Abbey Restoration Fund and lived at Thorney near Ely in Cambridgeshire.
