Percy Radcliffe (British Army officer)
Sir Percy Radcliffe | |
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Born | 9 February 1874 |
Died | 9 February 1934 (aged 60) |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/ | ![]() |
Years of service | 1893 - 1934 |
Rank | General |
Commands held | 48th (South Midland) Division 4th Division Scottish Command Southern Command |
Battles/wars | Second Boer War World War I |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order |
General Sir Percy Pollexfen de Blaquiere Radcliffe KCB KCMG DSO (9 February 1874 – 9 February 1934) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1930s.
Military career
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Percy Radcliffe was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1893.[1] He saw service with 'G' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1900,[1] and was mentioned in dispatches, and was promoted to captain in 1900 and then to major in 1910.[2] He saw active service during World War I on the Western Front,[1] and was made lieutenant colonel in 1916 and a brevet colonel the following year.[2] He was mentioned in dispatches six times during World War I.[2] 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.[3] Radcliffe continued as DMO from 1918 until 1922.[1] He was appointed General Officer Commanding 48th (South Midland) Division in 1923, General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1926 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Scottish Command in 1930.[4] His final appointment was as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command from 1933 until his death, when he fell from a horse and had a heart attack, on his sixtieth birthday, in 1934.[5][2]
Personal life
He was born on 9 February 1874. His parents were W. Pollexfen Radcliffe and Isabel de Blaquiere. He was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy.[2] He married twice - first to Rahmeh Theodora Swinburne in 1918 and then to Florence Alice Coromandel Tagg in 1932.[6]
Works
- Tactical Employment of Field Artillery (which he translated from the French).
- Report on the Franco-British Mission to Poland, July, August 1920
References
- ^ a b c d "Radcliffe, Percy". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Gen. P. Radcliffe Dies in England". New York Times. 10 February 1934. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, Vol 2, p1782, Odhams Press Ltd. 1936
- ^ Army Commands Archived 2015-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ National Library of Australia[permanent dead link]
- ^ The Peerage.com
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