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 | |
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| Nickname(s) | "Cuthbert Sugden" |
| Born | 4 December 1903 Rawalpindi, British India |
| Died | 25 March 1963 (aged 59) Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, London, England |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/ | British Army |
| Years of service | 1923–1961 |
| Rank | General |
| Service number | 27005 |
| Unit | Royal Engineers |
| Commands held | British Forces in Hong Kong Allied Forces Northern Europe |
| Battles/wars | Second World War |
| Awards | Knight 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
- Old Brightonians Archived 6 September 2012 at archive.today
- "No. 32858". The London Gazette. 31 August 1923. p. 5910.
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- Smart 2005, p. 301.
Bibliography
- Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.