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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name=Sir Cecil Sugden<br />
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|birth_date=4 December 1903<br />
|death_date=25 March 1963 (aged 59)<br />
|birth_place=[[Rawalpindi]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
|death_place=[[Queen Alexandra Military Hospital]], [[Millbank]], [[London]], [[England]]<br />
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|nickname="Cuthbert Sugden"<br />
|allegiance={{flag|United Kingdom}}<br />
|branch={{army|United Kingdom}}<br />
|serviceyears=1923−1961<br />
|servicenumber=27005<br />
|rank=[[General (United Kingdom)|General]]<br />
|unit=[[Royal Engineers]]<br />
|commands=[[Commander British Forces in Hong Kong|Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong]]<br>[[Allied Forces Northern Europe]]<br />
|battles=[[World War II]]<br />
|awards=[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]]<br>[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]<br />
}}<br />
[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Cecil Stanway Sugden''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GBE|KCB}} (4 December 1903 – 25 March 1963) was a senior [[British Army]] [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]] who became [[Master-General of the Ordnance]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Educated at [[Brighton College]],<ref>[http://www.oldbrightonians.com/list-of-past-oba-presidents.html Old Brightonians] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120906123514/http://www.oldbrightonians.com/list-of-past-oba-presidents.html |date=6 September 2012 }}</ref> Sugden was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] as a [[second lieutenant]] into the [[Royal Engineers]] on 29 August 1923.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32858|page=5910|date=31 August 1923}}</ref><ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/SUGDEN.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]</ref> He attended the [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Staff College, Quetta]] from 1932 to 1933.{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=301}}<br />
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He served in [[World War II]] in [[North Africa]] and then was Director of Plans at the [[War Office]] from 1943.<ref name=lh/><br />
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After the War he became Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1945.<ref name=lh/> 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 [[Royal College of Defence Studies|Imperial Defence College]],{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=301}} and then [[Chief of Staff]] there in 1948.<ref name=lh/><br />
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He 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.<ref name=lh/> He was appointed [[Commander British Forces in Hong Kong|Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong]] in 1954 and [[Commander-in-Chief]] of [[Allied Forces Northern Europe]] in 1956.<ref name=lh/> He served as [[Quartermaster-General to the Forces]] from 1958 to 1961 when he became [[Master-General of the Ordnance]].<ref name=lh/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*{{cite book| first=Nick| last=Smart| title=Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War| isbn=1844150496| year=2005| location=Barnesley| publisher=Pen & Sword}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://generals.dk/general/Sugden/Cecil_Stanway/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]<br />
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