Lieutenant-General
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Sir Hugh Sandham Jeudwine,
KCB,
KBE (9 June 1862 – 2 December 1942) was a
British Army
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officer who became Director General of the
Territorial Army.
Early life and education
Jeudwine was born at
Chicheley
Chicheley is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Unitary authorities in England, unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about north-east of Newport Pagnell.
The ...
, Buckinghamshire, on 9 June 1862. He was the son of Reverend William Jeudwine, vicar of Chicheley, Newport Pagnell. He was educated at
Eton College
Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...
between 1876 and 1880 before attending 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 ...
from 1880 to 1882.
Military career
Jeudwine was
commissioned into the
Royal Artillery
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as a
lieutenant
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The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often sub ...
on 22 February 1882, and was promoted to
captain
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on 31 December 1890. He served in the
Second Boer War
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1899–1900, and was promoted to
major
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on 4 January 1900. He again served in
South Africa
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as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for
Cape Colony
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in 1902.
[Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]
/ref> Following the end of the war in June 1902, he left Cape Town
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on the SS ''Canada'' and returned to Southampton
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in late July. After the war, he was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Experiments at the School of Gunnery in 1904 and Deputy Adjutant General at Aldershot Command in 1909 before taking a post on the staff at the Staff College, Camberley
Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, was a staff college for the British Army and the presidency armies of British India (later merged to form the Indian Army). It had its origins in the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, founded in 1799, which i ...
.[ He served in the ]First World War
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as Commander of 41st Infantry Brigade from 1915 and then as General Officer Commanding 55th (West Lancashire) Division from 1916.[ As Divisional Commander he sought feedback from his officers (an unusual practice at the time) at the ]Battle of Passchendaele
The Third Battle of Ypres (german: link=no, Dritte Flandernschlacht; french: link=no, Troisième Bataille des Flandres; nl, Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele (), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by t ...
in Autumn 1917 and then played a crucial role in holding the German Sixth Army at Givenchy
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in April 1918.Notable individuals
Western Front Association
After the War he became Chief of General Staff at Headquarters British Army on the Rhine and then, from 1919, General Officer Commanding 5th Division in Ireland
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.[ His last appointment was as Director General of the Territorial Army in 1923 before he retired in 1927.][
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1862 births
1942 deaths
Military personnel from Buckinghamshire
People educated at Eton College
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
British Army generals of World War I
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Royal Artillery officers
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
British Army lieutenant generals
Academics of the Staff College, Camberley