Pip Hicks

Philip Hicks
Brigadier "Pip" Hicks during the advance to Arnhem in 1944
Nickname(s)	"Pip"
Born	(1895-09-25)25 September 1895 Warwick, Warwickshire
Died	8 October 1967(1967-10-08) (aged 72) Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1914–1948
Rank	Brigadier
Service number	15075
Unit	Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Commands held	1st Airlanding Brigade 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Battles/wars	First World War Second World War Operation Husky Operation Market Garden
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order & Bar Military Cross Mentioned in Despatches (2)

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

Hicks was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1914, during the First World 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, Hicks retired from the British Army and worked for the International Refugee Organization and the National Playing Fields Association before his death in 1967.