Richard Hilton

Major-General Richard Hilton DSO, MC, DFC (18 January 1894 – 26 July 1978) was a British soldier, pilot, and author, who saw active service in both World wars. He also wrote under the name Zakhmi Dil, the title of a Pathan marching song which means "Wounded Heart". Early life Hilton was born at Rawalpindi, British India, the son of John Edward Hilton, a civil engineer in the Indian service. At the age of three, he was sent to England to live with an uncle at Ruxley in Kent, and the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria was his earliest memory. He was educated from 1907 to 1911 at Malvern College and from 1912 to 1913 at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from where he was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in December 1913.