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5 unusual facts about Hilary Hook


Hilary Hook

Lieutenant-Colonel Hilary Hook was a soldier in armies of the British Empire in India and later in Africa.

Hook was born on 26 September 1917 and was educated at Canford School, Dorset, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, after which he was commissioned into the Unattached List of the Indian Army on 27 January 1938.

This portrayed him as having led a full life of adventure in the British Empire, before coming home to an England which had changed out of all recognition to the one he remembered.

Home from the Hill

Home from the Hill (Hook), an autobiographical account of life in colonial Africa by Hilary Hook

Shikar Club

The society once championed big-game hunters, who included: Abel Chapman, Alfred Pease, Hilary Hook and Maurice Egerton, who in pursuit of big game travelled the globe hunting.



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