Template:Infobox military person General Sir Cecil Stanway Sugden Template:Postnominals (4 December 1903 – 25 March 1963) was a senior British Army officer who became Master-General of the Ordnance.
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.Template:Sfn
He served in World War II 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,Template:Sfn and then Chief of Staff there in 1948.[3]
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.[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
- Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War{{#if:Smart|, Smart}. Pen & Sword(2005). ISBN 1844150496
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