General Sir Cyril Dupré Noyes KCSI CB CIE MC (3 February 1885 – 11 March 1946) was a British officer in the

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Personal

Noyes was born in 1885, the son of the Reverend Henry Edward Noyes, D.D. He was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and the

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 Sig ...

. He married in 1918 Violet Maud Edith, eldest daughter of Colonel H. C. Lucas.

Military career

Noyes was commissioned into the

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21 December 1904 but transferred to the Indian Army and posted to

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23 September 1908. He served on anti-smuggling operations in the Persian Gulf 1913–14. During World War 1 he served in Egypt during 1914–15 then Mesopotamia in 1916, and was awarded the

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. Back in India he served on operations on the North West Frontier versus Afghanistan in 1919. He attended the

Staff College, Quetta ( ''romanized'': Pir Sho Biyamooz Saadi)English: Grow old, learning Saadi ur, سیکھتے ہوئے عمر رسیدہ ہو جاؤ، سعدی , established = (as the ''Army Staff College'' in Deolali, British India) , closed ...

from 1921 to 1922 and later returned there as an instructor from 1927 to 1930, later commanding the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment. After attendance at the

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, he saw service again in the Mohmand campaign of 1935 as commander of the 2nd Indian Infantry Brigade and again during operations in Waziristan in 1936–37 for which he was awarded the CIE. He was promoted Commanding Officer of the 2nd battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment from 16 March 1929 and held command until 15 March 1933. He was appointed commander of the 2nd Indian Infantry Brigade from 6 September 1935 to 25 November 1938.January 1936 & January 1939 Indian Army List'sGenerals.dk
/ref> He served in

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as Deputy Quartermaster-General at Army Headquarters India from 1939, as Director of Movements & Quartering at Army Headquarters, India from 1940 and as a District Commander in India from 1941. He went on to be Quartermaster-General at Army Headquarters, India in 1942 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief North Western Army in 1942. He retired in 1943 and died in 1946.

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