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Percy Radcliffe (British Army Officer)
General Sir Percy Pollexfen de Blaquiere Radcliffe (9 February 1874 – 9 February 1934) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1930s. Military career Percy Radcliffe was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1893. He saw service with 'G' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1900, and was mentioned in dispatches, and was promoted to captain in 1900 and then to major in 1910. He saw active service during World War I on the Western Front, and was made lieutenant colonel in 1916 and a brevet colonel the following year. He was mentioned in dispatches six times during World War I. When William Robertson was replaced as CIGS in early 1918 by Sir Henry Wilson, Radcliffe was appointed Director of Military Operations at the War Office. He replaced Major-General Frederick Maurice. Radcliffe continued as DMO from 1918 until 1922. He was appointed General Officer Commanding 48th (South Midland) Division in 1923, General Offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Robertson (British Army Officer)
Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War. As CIGS he was committed to a Western Front strategy focusing on Germany and was against what he saw as peripheral operations on other fronts. While CIGS, Robertson had increasingly poor relations with David Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War and then Prime Minister, and threatened resignation at Lloyd George's attempt to subordinate the British forces to the French Commander-in-Chief, Robert Nivelle. In 1917 Robertson supported the continuation of the Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres) at odds with Lloyd George's view that Britain's war effort ought to be focused on the other theatres until the arrival of sufficient US troops on the Western Front. Robertson is the on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burnett-Stuart
General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, (14 March 1875 – 6 October 1958) was a British Army general in the 1920s and 1930s. Military career Educated at Repton School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, John Burnett-Stuart was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) as a second-lieutenant on 6 March 1895.Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He was promoted to on 26 July 1897, and saw service on the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Romer
General Sir Cecil Francis Romer, (14 November 1869 – 1 October 1962) was a British Army general who reached high command during the 1920s. Early life and education Romer was born in Kensington, London, the son of Lord Justice Robert Romer (1840–1918) and Betty Lemon, daughter of Mark Lemon, editor of ''Punch''. His elder brother was Mark Romer, Baron Romer (1866–1944). He was educated at Eton College. His sister, Helen Mary, married Lord Chancellor Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham. Military career Romer was commissioned into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers as a second lieutenant on 1 March 1890, promoted lieutenant on 23 August 1893, and captain on 19 October 1898. He served in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902, and received the brevet rank of major on 29 November 1900.Sir Cecil Francis Romer Liddell Hart Centre fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peyton
General Sir William Eliot Peyton, (7 May 1866 – 14 November 1931) was a British Army officer who served as Military Secretary to the British Expeditionary Force from 1916 to 1918. He was Delhi Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the time of the Delhi Durbar of 1911. Early life The third son of Colonel John Peyton, commanding officer of the 7th Dragoon Guards, Peyton was educated at Brighton College.''PEYTON, General Sir William Eliot'', in '' Who Was Who 1929–1940'' (London, A. & C. Black, 1967 reprint: )William Eliot Peyton at the web site of the CENTRE FOR FIRST WORLD WAR STUDIES online at bham.ac.uk (accessed 19 January 2008) Military career In 1885, Peyton enlisted in the ranks in the 7th Dragoon Guards, a regiment that his father had commanded between 1871 and 1876.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Cameron (British Army Officer)
General Sir Archibald Rice Cameron of Locheil, (28 August 1870 – 18 June 1944) was a British Army General during the 1930s. Military career Educated at Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Arichibald Cameron was commissioned into the Black Watch as a second lieutenant on 1 March 1890, promoted to lieutenant on 3 August 1892, and to captain on 6 October 1899. He was appointed adjutant in the 2nd battalion in April 1900, and with the battalion took part in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902, during which he received a brevet promotion as major on 29 November 1900 (gazetted in the April 1901 South Africa Honours list). Following the end of this war he left Point Natal for British India on the SS ''Ionian'' in October 1902 with other officers and men of his battalion, which after arrival in Bombay was stationed in Sialkot in Umballa in Punjab. He returned to South Africa to become Military Secretary to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope from 1904 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Byng Stephens
General Sir Reginald Byng Stephens, (10 October 1869 – 6 April 1955) was a British Army general of the First World War and later Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1919 to 1923, Major-General commanding the 4th Division, 1923 to 1926, and finally Director-General of the Territorial Army, 1927 to 1931. Early life The son of Captain Frederick Stephens JP, late the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, of Bentworth Lodge, Alton, Hampshire, by his marriage on 13 January 1869 to Cecilia Mary, daughter of Captain H. Byng RN, of Quendon Hall, Essex, Stephens was educated at Winchester College.'Stephens, General Sir Reginald Byng', in '' Who Was Who, 1951–1960'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1984 reprint, ) His sister, Mabel, was born and died in 1870, and he also had five younger brothers, Berkeley, Lionel, Gerald Edmund, Evelyn Edward, and Frederick Geoffrey, and a second sister, Cicely Mary. Military career Stephens trained at the Royal Military College, Sand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tait Pitman
Major-General Thomas Tait Pitman, (22 December 1868 – 8 March 1941) was a British cavalry officer, who was a general officer during the First World War. Personal life Thomas Tait Pitman was born on 22 December 1868, the son of Frederick Pitman, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh. He was one of eight brothers, including Frederick Islay Pitman and Charles Murray Pitman. In 1920 he married Violet Mary, only daughter of Sir Michael Lakin, 1st Baronet. He died on 8 March 1941. Military career Pitman entered the army in 1889 and served with the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars for 26 years. He was commissioned a second lieutenant on 9 October 1889, was promoted to lieutenant on 6 April 1891, and to captain on 16 April 1895. Seeing service in the North West Frontier campaign 1897–98, he then served in South Africa during the Second Boer War, where he was second-in-command of the 5th battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. For his service he was mentioned in despatches (date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Bridgwood Walker
Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker, (26 April 1862 – 5 November 1934) was a senior British Army commander who led Australian and New Zealand forces for much of the First World War. He was highly regarded by the men he commanded and was only replaced in 1918 when politics dictated that all divisions of the Australian Imperial Force should be commanded by Australians. Early life Walker was born on 26 April 1862 in Dilhorne, North Staffordshire, England. His father was James Harold Walker, an Anglican clergyman, and his mother was Mary Walker (''née'' Bridgwood). He was a descendant of George Walker. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Jesus College, Cambridge. However, he did not graduate, having left before completing his degree. Military career Walker was commissioned into the British Army as a lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on 14 May 1884 and served on the Nile Expedition in 1884 and 1885. He was promoted to captain on 16 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Signals and other technical corps. RMA Woolwich was commonly known as "The Shop" because its first building was a converted workshop of the Woolwich Arsenal. History Origins in the Royal Arsenal An attempt had been made by the Board of Ordnance in 1720 to set up an academy within its Arsenal (then known as the Warren) to provide training and education for prospective officers of its new Regiment of Artillery and Corps of Engineers (both of which had been established there in 1716). A new building was being constructed in readiness for the Academy and funds had been secured, seemingly, through investment in the South Sea Company; but the latter's collapse led to plans for the Academy being placed on hold. After this false start, the ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester College
Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of the nine schools considered by the Clarendon Commission. The school is currently undergoing a transition to become co-educational and to accept day pupils, having previously been a boys' boarding school for over 600 years. The school was founded to provide an education for 70 scholars. Gradually numbers rose, a choir of 16 "quiristers" being added alongside paying pupils known as "commoners". Numbers expanded greatly in the 1860s with the addition of ten boarding houses. The scholars continue to live in the school's medieval buildings, which consist of two courtyards, a chapel, and a cloisters. A Wren-style classroom building named "School" was added in the 17th century. An art school ("museum"), science school, and music school wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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