Brigadier John Harold Hogshaw (1896–1968) was a
British Army officer who briefly commanded the
4th Division during the
Second World War.
Military career
After graduating from the
Royal Military College at Sandhurst
The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry a ...
, Hogshaw was
commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers (later the
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) on 15 December 1914, over four months after the
First World War began. He was awarded the
Military Cross (MC) for his actions while serving with his regiment's 1st Battalion on the
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. The citation for the medal, appearing in ''
The London Gazette'' in May 1916, reads as follows:
Hogshaw also served in the
Second World War: he became commander of the
10th Infantry Brigade in North Africa in June 1942 and briefly took over command of the
4th Division in North Africa on 22 August 1943 and remained in command until relieved on 4 September 1943. After returning to the 10th Brigade, he went on to command the
203rd Infantry Brigade in August 1944 and the
134th Infantry Brigade in September 1944. After the war he served as
Commandant of the British sector in Vienna from December 1946 to November 1949.
Hogshaw was appointed a
Companion of the Order of the Bath
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in the
1948 Birthday Honours
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.
References
External links
Generals of World War II
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1896 births
1968 deaths
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Recipients of the Military Cross
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers officers
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army brigadiers of World War II
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst