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Cecil Heywood

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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Service/branch
  
British Army

Died
  
October 20, 1936


Name
  
Cecil Heywood

Years of service
  
1899-1936

Rank
  
Major general

Commands held
  
3rd Guards Brigade Coldstream Guards and Regimental District 3rd Division

Battles/wars
  
Second Boer War World War I

Awards
  
Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Distinguished Service Order

Battles and wars
  
Second Boer War, World War I

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

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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, leaving Southampton for South Africa on the SS Canada in early February 1900. Following the war, he became Adjutant 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 Sudan in 1908. He served in World War I as a General Staff Officer before becoming Commander of 3rd Guards Brigade in 1918. 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 Staffordshire.

Family

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

References

Cecil Heywood Wikipedia