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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Major_General_John_Antill.jpg/200px-Major_General_John_Antill.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="346" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Major_General_John_Antill.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="519" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="font-size: 100%">Colonel Antill on Rhododendron Spur during the <a href="/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallipoli Campaign">Gallipoli Campaign</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">"Bull", "Bullant"<sup id="cite_ref-mallett_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mallett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1866-01-26</span>)</span>26 January 1866<br />Jarvisfield, <a href="/wiki/Picton,_New_South_Wales" title="Picton, New South Wales">Picton, New South Wales</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">1 March 1937<span style="display:none">(1937-03-01)</span> (aged 71)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, New South Wales</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Army" title="Australian Army">Australian Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1887–1906<br />1911–1924</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Major_general_(Australia)" title="Major general (Australia)">Major General</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Commands</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/5th_Military_District_(Australia)" title="5th Military District (Australia)">5th Military District</a> (1918–20)<br /><a href="/wiki/16th_Brigade_(Australia)" title="16th Brigade (Australia)">16th Infantry Brigade</a> (1917)<br /><a href="/wiki/2nd_Brigade_(Australia)" title="2nd Brigade (Australia)">2nd Infantry Brigade</a> (1916)<br /><a href="/wiki/3rd_Light_Horse_Brigade" title="3rd Light Horse Brigade">3rd Light Horse Brigade</a> (1915–16)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li 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1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">Companion of the Order of the Bath</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mentioned_in_Despatches" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentioned in Despatches">Mentioned in Despatches</a> (6)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Other work</th><td class="infobox-data">Co-authored play <i>The Emancipist</i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Major_general_(Australia)" title="Major general (Australia)">Major General</a> <b>John Macquarie Antill</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">CB</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">CMG</a></span></span> (26 January 1866 – 1 March 1937) was a senior Australian Army officer in the <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Mounted_Rifles" title="New South Wales Mounted Rifles">New South Wales Mounted Rifles</a> serving in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>, and an <a href="/wiki/Australian_Army" title="Australian Army">Australian Army</a> general in the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>. </p><p>Antill is best known for not stopping the futile charges on the Turkish lines at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nek" title="Battle of the Nek">The Nek</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallipoli Campaign">Gallipoli Campaign</a> in August 1915, during which four waves of attackers barely got "over the top" before being cut down by Turkish fire. The ANZAC forces suffered a 60% casualty rate, most having been cut down <i>en masse</i> just feet from their own trenches. He later command the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Light_Horse_Brigade" title="3rd Light Horse Brigade">3rd Light Horse Brigade</a> in the final months of the Gallipoli Campaign, and then during the early part of the <a href="/wiki/Sinai_and_Palestine_campaign" title="Sinai and Palestine campaign">Sinai and Palestine campaign</a>. In August 1916, he was offered command of the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Brigade_(Australia)" title="2nd Brigade (Australia)">2nd Infantry Brigade</a> and commanded the brigade briefly on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>, until his health deteriorated and he was evacuated to England in November 1916. In early 1917, Antill took over command of the embryonic <a href="/wiki/16th_Brigade_(Australia)" title="16th Brigade (Australia)">16th Infantry Brigade</a>, but this formation was disbanded before it was fully formed and Antill ultimately did not see action again. He returned to Australia in late 1917. </p><p>He retired from the military in 1924 with the rank of honorary major general. In retirement, he co-wrote a play about <a href="/wiki/William_Redfern" title="William Redfern">William Redfern</a>, called <i>The Emancipist</i>. He died in 1937 from cancer. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Antill_(general)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Antill was born on 26 January 1866 at the family estate of <a href="/wiki/Jarvisfield,_Picton" title="Jarvisfield, Picton">Jarvisfield</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Picton,_New_South_Wales" title="Picton, New South Wales">Picton</a>, New South Wales.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents were John Macquarie Antill (1822–1900)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Jessie Hassall Campbell (1834–1917);<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was the second of their surviving sons. Antill attended <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Grammar_School" title="Sydney Grammar School">Sydney Grammar</a> where he was a member of the school's cadet unit, and after completing his education he became a <a href="/wiki/Surveyor_(surveying)" class="mw-redirect" title="Surveyor (surveying)">surveyor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nswshr-305_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswshr-305-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His older brother Robert Henry Antill (1859–1938) became a pastoralist and coroner.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sister was Elisabeth Ann Antill (1871–1927) who married Brigadier General <a href="/wiki/Harry_Lassetter" title="Harry Lassetter">Harry Lassetter</a> in 1891,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and survived the sinking of the <a href="/wiki/RMS_Lusitania" title="RMS Lusitania">RMS <i>Lusitania</i></a> in 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a keen sportsman in his youth, and was an accomplished fencer and boxer.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1887, Antill became a member of the local <a href="/wiki/Australian_Army_Reserve" title="Australian Army Reserve">militia</a>. Two years later, he took command of a squadron of the <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Mounted_Rifles" title="New South Wales Mounted Rifles">New South Wales Mounted Rifles</a> that he helped to raise in Picton, and from 19 January 1889 he served in this unit with the rank of <a href="/wiki/Captain_(armed_forces)" title="Captain (armed forces)">captain</a>. Under orders from Major General <a href="/wiki/Edward_Hutton_(British_Army_officer)" title="Edward Hutton (British Army officer)">Edward Hutton</a>, the commander of the New South Wales Military Forces, Antill undertook a temporary detachment to the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>, serving with them in India in 1893, where he was attached firstly to the <a href="/wiki/The_Devonshire_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="The Devonshire Regiment">1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment</a> and then to the <a href="/wiki/Dragoon_guards" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragoon guards">2nd Dragoon Guards</a>. He completed this in 1894, and was given a permanent commission as a captain in the New South Wales military.<sup id="cite_ref-nswshr-305_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswshr-305-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mallett_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mallett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_career">Military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Antill_(general)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Boer_War">Boer War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Antill_(general)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Boer War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In late 1899, Antill was promoted to the rank of <a href="/wiki/Major_(rank)" title="Major (rank)">major</a>. As part of New South Wales' contribution to the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Boer War</a>, he was placed in command of 'A' Squadron, New South Wales Mounted Rifles, and sent overseas. Antill was present during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paardeberg" title="Battle of Paardeberg">Battle of Paardeberg</a>, which took place on 18 February 1900. He also took part in securing Pretoria and other operations unil he returned to Australia in January 1901. Two months later, he returned to South Africa, this time serving as the second-in-command of the 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles. With this force, he took part in the capture of a Boer convoy under the command of <a href="/wiki/Ferdinandus_Jacobus_Potgieter" title="Ferdinandus Jacobus Potgieter">Fedinandus Potgier</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Vaal_River" title="Vaal River">River Vaal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nswshr-305_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswshr-305-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For service in South Africa, Antill was <a href="/wiki/Mentioned_in_Despatches" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentioned in Despatches">Mentioned in Despatches</a> twice, was appointed a <a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">Companion of the Order of the Bath</a> (CB) in 1901,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and achieved the <a href="/wiki/Brevet_(military)" title="Brevet (military)">brevetted</a> rank of <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel" title="Lieutenant colonel">lieutenant colonel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After returning to Australia, Antill married Marion Wills-Allen in Sydney, on 24 October 1901; the couple had two children. Remaining in the regular forces, he then undertook an instructional role between 1902 and 1904,<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then served as <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor General of Australia">Governor General</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Northcote,_1st_Baron_Northcote" title="Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote">Henry Northcote</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Aide_de_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Aide de camp">aide de camp</a> between 1904 and 1906. He returned to civilian life in Picton until 1911 when he took up the role of Commandant of the Instructional Staff Schools,<sup id="cite_ref-nswshr-305_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswshr-305-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> based in <a href="/wiki/Albury,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Albury, New South Wales">Albury, New South Wales</a>. In 1913, his marriage broke down. His wife had moved to England, and he applied for a divorce,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was finalised the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By April, he had been promoted to the rank of permanent lieutenant colonel.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_World_War">First World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Antill_(general)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 1914, Antill volunteered for overseas service with the <a href="/wiki/First_Australian_Imperial_Force" title="First Australian Imperial Force">Australian Imperial Force</a>. As a regular officer, he was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Light_Horse_Brigade" title="3rd Light Horse Brigade">3rd Light Horse Brigade</a> as <a href="/wiki/Brigade_major" title="Brigade major">brigade major</a>, under the command of Colonel <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Hughes" title="Frederic Hughes">Frederic Hughes</a>. He departed for the Middle East on 25 February 1915 on the Transport A16 <i>Star of Victoria</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reaching Egypt where the brigade undertook further training. In May, the light horsemen were sent to <a href="/wiki/Anzac_Cove" class="mw-redirect" title="Anzac Cove">Anzac Cove</a> as dismounted reinforcements; initially, Antill's brigade undertook mainly defensive duties.<sup id="cite_ref-Bou146-147_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bou146-147-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in an effort to break the deadlock they were committed to the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sari_Bair" title="Battle of Sari Bair">August Offensive</a>. During the fierce fighting at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nek" title="Battle of the Nek">The Nek</a>, Antill, now in temporary command of the brigade, refused a request from the commander of the <a href="/wiki/10th_Light_Horse" class="mw-redirect" title="10th Light Horse">10th Light Horse</a>, Lieutenant Colonel <a href="/w/index.php?title=Noel_Brazier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Noel Brazier (page does not exist)">Noel Brazier</a>, to cancel the third wave. Hughes had gone forward to observe the attack, leaving Antill in charge. Due to a communications breakdown, Antill believed Hughes had gone forward to lead the brigade forward and therefore ordered the attack to continue. Part of the fourth wave also went over the top, before Brazier and some officers from the 8th Light Horse Regiment reached Hughes in time to call off any further waves.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Out of around 500 men committed to the attack, more than half became casualties, with 234 being killed and 138 wounded.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of those that were killed, died within only a few metres of the Australian trench line having come under heavy, unsuppressed fire.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Antill took over temporary command of the brigade in September 1915 when Hughes became sick and had to be evacuated.<sup id="cite_ref-Bou146-147_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bou146-147-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Antill remained in command of the brigade until December 1915,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when the decision was made by the British high command to evacuate the peninsula. The 3rd Light Horse Brigade were among last troops to withdraw from the position on 20 December 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 January 1916, after the light horse units had returned to Egypt, Antill was promoted to the permanent rank of <a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a>, and temporary rank of <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_general" title="Brigadier general">brigadier general</a>. He was also confirmed in his position as commander of 3rd Light Horse.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The brigade was placed in the rear and for a time undertook defensive duties along the <a href="/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a>, occupying No. 2 Section of the defences.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 5 August, after an Ottoman force <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Romani" title="Battle of Romani">attacked at Romani</a>, Antill's brigade joined the rest of the <a href="/wiki/ANZAC_Mounted_Division" title="ANZAC Mounted Division">ANZAC Mounted Division</a> east of the canal. They arrived too late to take part in the initial fighting although they were later committed to following up the withdrawing Turkish troops.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bir_el_Ard" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Bir el Ard">Battle of Bir el Ard</a>, Antill's brigade penetrated the Turkish flank and overran the defensive position at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamisah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamisah (page does not exist)">Hamisah</a>, taking some 425 prisoners. While reforming after the engagement his regiments began receiving shell fire, and Antill ordered a withdrawal to Nagid, remaining overnight. Antlll's actions removed his brigade from action, and delayed his divisional commander, Major General <a href="/wiki/Harry_Chauvel" title="Harry Chauvel">Harry Chauvel</a>, by several hours that proved costly in terms of consolidating the initial gains.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Only days after Romani, General <a href="/wiki/William_Birdwood,_1st_Baron_Birdwood" class="mw-redirect" title="William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood">William Birdwood</a> sent a message requesting Antill take command of an infantry brigade on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>. Antill accepted the offer, and relinquished command of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade to Brigadier General <a href="/wiki/John_Royston" title="John Royston">John Royston</a> on 9 August. On arrival in Europe, Antill was given command over the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Brigade_(Australia)" title="2nd Brigade (Australia)">2nd Infantry Brigade</a>, taking over in September and overseeing operations around <a href="/wiki/Ypres" title="Ypres">Ypres</a> and on the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme" title="Battle of the Somme">Somme</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Antill became ill and had to be evacuated to England in November 1916. He returned to duty on 20 March 1917 at which time he assumed command of the <a href="/wiki/16th_Brigade_(Australia)" title="16th Brigade (Australia)">16th Infantry Brigade</a>, which was being raised within the new <a href="/wiki/Australian_6th_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian 6th Division">6th Division</a>. The brigade was ultimately disbanded without seeing action, and Antill's health deteriorated. As a result, the medical review board refused to clear him for active duty. After failing his final medical examination he ceased his command on 20 September 1917. He returned to Australia shortly afterwards.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For his service during the First World War, Antill was created a <a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George</a> in 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nswshr-305_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswshr-305-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-war_and_later_life">Post-war and later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Antill_(general)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Post-war and later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On his return to Australia, Antill's appointment to the AIF was terminated in December 1917 and he returned to the permanent forces.<sup id="cite_ref-nswshr-305_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswshr-305-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mallett_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mallett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He subsequently assumed the role of <a href="/wiki/Assistant_Adjutant_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Assistant Adjutant General">Assistant Adjutant General</a> in 1918. Later that year, he took over as Commandant of the <a href="/wiki/5th_Military_District_(Australia)" title="5th Military District (Australia)">5th Military District</a>, in South Australia. He held this position until 1921, when he took up the role of Chief Instructor at the Training Depot, based in <a href="/wiki/Liverpool,_New_South_Wales" title="Liverpool, New South Wales">Liverpool, New South Wales</a>. On 26 January 1924, Antill retired from the military, with the honorary rank of major general.<sup id="cite_ref-nswshr-305_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswshr-305-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In retirement, he lived in Jarvisfield, <a href="/wiki/Manly,_New_South_Wales" title="Manly, New South Wales">Manly</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Dee_Why" title="Dee Why">Dee Why</a>, and undertook a variety of hobbies including gardening, and sports. In 1936, he co-authored a play called <i>The Emancipist</i> with Rose Antill de Warren, about <a href="/wiki/William_Redfern" title="William Redfern">William Redfern</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The final years of his life were spent in ill health, as he was diagnosed with cancer. Antill died on 1 March 1937 at the age of 71.<sup id="cite_ref-nswshr-305_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswshr-305-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was cremated.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In summarising Antill's character, his biographer <a href="/wiki/Rex_Clark_(Australian_soldier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rex Clark (Australian soldier)">Rex Clark</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Australian_Dictionary_of_Biography" title="Australian Dictionary of Biography">Australian Dictionary of Biography</a></i> describes Antill as: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Tall, spare and wiry, brusque in manner and speech, Antill was recognized throughout his career as a courageous soldier, an able leader, a stern disciplinarian and a shrewd judge of men, with a flair for moulding those under his command to his ideal of what a soldier should be. This ideal was in the traditional British pattern.<sup id="cite_ref-adb_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Ross Mallett's "General Officers of the First AIF" describes him in the following terms: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Brusque of manner and speech, Antill was a courageous soldier, an able leader and above all a stern disciplinarian. Many British officers considered him the very model of what a soldier should be. 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