Philip Palin
| Sir Philip Charles Palin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 August 1864 Edinburgh |
| Died | 22 January 1937 (aged 72) Hove |
| Buried at | Hove Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch |
 British Indian Army
|
| Years of service | 1886–1921 |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Unit | 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs |
| Commands held |
29th Indian Brigade 75th Division 3rd (Lahore) Division |
| Battles/wars |
Third Anglo-Burmese War Hazara Expedition of 1888 Waziristan Expedition of 1894–95 Tochi Field Force of 1897–98 Sinai and Palestine Campaign Gallipoli Campaign |
| Awards |
Companion of the Order of the Bath (1916) Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (1919) Eight Mentions in Despatches Order of Karageorge Order of the Nile Honorary Colonel, 1st Battalion 11th Sikh Regiment |
| Other work | President, Palin Commission (1920) |
Sir Philip Charles Palin KCMG CB (1864–1937) was an officer of the British Indian Army who served in frontier campaigns and then commanded British, Indian and South African troops in Egypt, Gallipoli and Palestine during World War I. Postwar he investigated Arab–Jewish conflict in Jerusalem.
Philip Palin was born in Edinburgh on 8 August 1864, the son of Lieutenant-General C.T. Palin of the Bombay Army. Philip and two of his brothers followed their father into the Indian Army. He was educated at Clifton College and then entered the army by the militia 'back door' (rather than through the Royal Military College, Sandhurst), being commissioned as a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion (Royal Denbigh and Flint Militia) Royal Welch Fusiliers on 9 January 1884. On 28 April 1886 he received a commission in the Regular Army as a lieutenant in the Cheshire Regiment.
Palin joined the 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment in Burma and saw active service in the latter stages of the Third Anglo-Burmese War. Then on 15 June 1888 he transferred to the Indian Staff Corps and was appointed to 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs. He served with the regiment on the Hazara Expedition of 1888, the Waziristan Expedition of 1894–95 and the Tochi Field Force of 1897–98 on the North-West Frontier. He was promoted to Captain in 1897 and served for five years (1899–1904) as permanent adjutant of the three battalions of the Calcutta Volunteer Rifles.
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