Philip Hugh Whitby Hicks

Philip Hugh Whitby Hicks
Brigadier "Pip" Hicks during the advance to Arnhem in 1944
Nickname(s)	Pip
Born	25 September 1895 Warwick, Warwickshire
Died	8 October 1967 Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Brigadier
Unit	Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Commands held	2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1st Airlanding Brigade
Battles/wars	World War I World War II Operation Husky Operation Market Garden
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order and Bar Military Cross Mentioned in dispatches

Brigadier Philip Hugh Whitby Hicks CBE, DSO, MC (25 September 1895 – 8 October 1967) was an officer of the British Army during both World War I and World War II.

He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1914, during the Great War, and fought on the Western Front. In the Second World War he was commander of the 1st Airlanding Brigade, of the 1st Airborne Division. He commanded the brigade in the Mediterranean theatre during Operation Ladbroke, part of the Allied invasion of Sicily, in July 1943, as well as during the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden, in September 1944.

After the Second World War he retired from the British Army and worked for the International Refugee Organization and the National Playing Fields Association before his death in 1967.

Philip Hugh Whitby Hicks was born on 25 September 1895 in Warwick, Warwickshire. The son of Dr Philip Hicks and the writer Beatrice Whitby, he was educated at Winchester College in Hampshire.