Major General Cecil Percival Heywood, (17 May 1880 – 20 October 1936) was a British Army officer who commanded 3rd Division.

Military career

Born the second son of Sir Arthur Heywood, 3rd Baronet, Heywood was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards as a second-lieutenant on 12 August 1899. He fought in the Second Boer War,Cecil Percival Heywood
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of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards in 1904 before undertaking a tour with the Egyptian Army which involved him in operations in Southern Kurdufan in

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in 1908. He served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer before becoming Commander of 3rd Guards Brigade in 1918. He was wounded by shellfire in the war's final days. In the following year he served as a staff officer in the Russian Civil War. He was appointed Commander of the Coldstream Guards and Regimental District in 1927, Director of Military Training in India in 1930 and Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1934. He was briefly General Officer Commanding 3rd Division in 1936 before retiring. He is buried in All Saint's Churchyard at Denstone in

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Family

In 1917 he married Margaret Vere Kerr; they had a son and a daughter.

References

Bibliography

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heywood, Cecil 1880 births 1936 deaths British Army personnel of the Russian Civil War Burials in Staffordshire British Army major generals Coldstream Guards officers Companions of the Order of the Bath Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Companions of the Distinguished Service Order

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