John Lionel Hills

Before the war he worked with Fairey Aviation as a traveling wireless engineer. He married Katherine Hutchinson in 1931.

John Hills was recruited by Colonel Gubbins in August 1940 to set up a wireless network for the Special Duties Branch, passing messages by courier proved to be too slow. Gubbins had the idea to approach the Radio Society of Great Britain for details of radio amateurs serving in the Army. John Hills was a pre-war amateur operator himself with callsign G2AW. His wife Kitty was recruited to the initial network in Kent as one of the ATS wireless operators.