Cecil Sugden

General Sir Cecil Stanway Sugden, GBE, KCB (4 December 1903 – 25 March 1963) was a senior British Army officer who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1962 to 1963.

Sir Cecil Sugden
Nickname(s)"Cuthbert Sugden"
Born(1903-12-04)4 December 1903
Rawalpindi, British India
Died25 March 1963(1963-03-25) (aged 59)
Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, London, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1923–1961
RankGeneral
Service number27005
UnitRoyal Engineers
Commands heldBritish Forces in Hong Kong
Allied Forces Northern Europe
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Military career

Educated at Brighton College,[1] Sugden was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Engineers on 29 August 1923.[2][3] He attended the Staff College, Quetta from 1932 to 1933.[4]

Sugden served in the Second World War in North Africa and then was Director of Plans at the War Office from 1943.[3] After the war he became Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1945.[3] He became a brigadier on the General Staff at Headquarters British Troops in Egypt in 1947, the same year he served as an instructor at the Imperial Defence College,[4] and then chief of staff there in 1948.[3]

Sugden returned to the War Office as Director of Personnel Administration in 1949 and then became chief of staff for British Army of the Rhine in 1951.[3] He was appointed Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1954 and Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1956.[3] He served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1958 to 1961, when he became Master-General of the Ordnance.[3]

References

Bibliography

  • Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.
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