Philip Palin

Sir Philip Palin
Palin in 1919
Born	(1864-08-08)8 August 1864 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	22 January 1937(1937-01-22) (aged 72) Hove, England
Buried	Hove Cemetery
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army  British Indian Army
Years of service	1886–1921
Rank	Major-General
Unit	Royal Welch Fusiliers Cheshire Regiment 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs
Commands	29th Indian Brigade 75th Division 3rd (Lahore) Division
Battles / wars	Third Anglo-Burmese War North-West Frontier First Hazara Expedition Waziristan Expedition Tochi Expedition World War I Gallipoli campaign Sinai and Palestine 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)

Major-General Sir Philip Charles Palin KCMG CB (8 August 1864 – 22 January 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 chaired an inquiry into the Arab–Jewish conflict in Jerusalem.