Philip Hugh Whitby Hicks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Philip Hugh Whitby Hicks

British Army officer

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1895

Place of Birth: Warwick, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 08-Oct-1967

Profession: military officer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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