Alec Jeffrey Hill was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 2 July 1916.
10 Facts About Alec Hill
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Alec Hill's father, who served in the Great War, died while Alec was a boy.
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Alec Hill was commissioned in the New South Wales Scottish Regiment of the Militia in 1936.
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Alec Hill joined the Second Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, receiving the service number NX380.
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Alec Hill was a staff officer at 9th Division headquarters during the Second Battle of El Alamein.
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Alec Hill was involved with the Australian Army Cadets and the Citizen Military Forces.
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Alec Hill served a term as Honorary aide de camp to the Governor of New South Wales.
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Alec Hill produced Chauvel of the Light Horse, a biography of the General Sir Harry Chauvel, the commander of the Desert Mounted Corps in the Great War.
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Alec Hill was associated with the Australian Dictionary of Biography for more than 30 years, becoming a member of its Armed Forces Working Party on its formation in 1974, and was its chairman from 1982 to 1994.
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Alec Hill wrote 38 articles on such prominent generals as William Birdwood, Frank Berryman, Harry Chauvel, Harold Elliott, Leslie Morshead, Sydney Rowell, and George Wootten, in some cases drawing on his personal knowledge of the subject.