ALLIED LEADERS (21): General Sir F. Pile
HE man who has the heavy responsibility of commanding the Anti-Aircraft Defences of Britain is General Sir Frederick Pile, C.B., D.S.0., M.C. His father was a Lord Mayor of Dublin.
At 20, General Pile gained his commission in the Royal Artillery, and he has. been in the Army ever since in various branches of the service, including the Tank Corps. When the last war broke out, he was 40, and he gained his captaincy when he went across to France. There he did well, gaining the D.S.O. and the M.C., and being mentioned several times in despatches. Back in a peace-time army, promotion came slowly, and he did not become a colonel until 1928. By that time, his interest in the mechanical side of warfare qualified him for the job of assistant director of mechanisation at the War Office. In 1932 he was promoted Brigadier, and sent to command the Canal Brigade at Ismailia, Egypt. When he returned from Egypt, General Pile spent some time with the Tank Corps, and in 1937 he went back to his first love-guns-in command of the Anti-Aircraft Division. Since war broke out, he has had the awful responsibility of protecting Britain from enemy air raids.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 2
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