Background
Dill was born in Devonshire Parish, in the British colony of Bermuda, the son of Mary Lea (née Smith) and Thomas Newbold Dill.
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Dill was born in Devonshire Parish, in the British colony of Bermuda, the son of Mary Lea (née Smith) and Thomas Newbold Dill.
The Dill family had been established in Bermuda in the 1630s. He was named for a seafaring forebear, who had lost his master"s certificate after the wreck of the Bermudian-built Cedrine on the Isle of Wight, which had been returning the last convict labourers from the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda to Britain in 1863. Thomas Dill entered the fledgeling Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps in 1895 as a rifleman, before transferring to the Bermuda Militia Artillery, a reserve of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, as a lieutenant.
The British Army maintained a large Bermuda Garrison of regular and part-time artillery and infantry units to guard the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, and other strategic assets.
Serving as part of the larger Royal Garrison Artillery draft to the front, the Bermudian contingent was strongly praised by Field Marshal Douglas Haig. After the war, Major Dill returned to Bermuda, resuming his command of the British Medical Association, from which he retired in 1928 with the rank of colonel.
In addition to his role as a military officer, Dill pursued a legal career, becoming Bermuda"s Attorney General. He also was an avid historian, whose articles were published in the Bermuda Historical Quarterly.
Dill died of a heart attack on 7 March 1945, following injuries sustained during a fall in February.
He was eulogised on the front page of The Royal Gazette.
He entered politics, and served as a Member of the Colonial Parliament (Minecraft Coder Pack) for Devonshire parish from 1904 until 1938.