Allegiance United Kingdom Battles/wars World War II Battles and wars World War II | Name Cecil Sugden Died 1963 | |
Commands held Commander of British Forces in Hong KongAllied Forces Northern Europe Awards Order of the British Empire, Order of the Bath | ||
General Sir Cecil Stanway Sugden (1903–1963) was a senior British Army officer who became Master-General of the Ordnance.
Military career
Educated at Brighton College, Sugden was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1923.
He served in World War II in North Africa and then was Director of Plans at the War Office from 1943.
After the War he became Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1945. He became a Brigadier on the General Staff at Headquarters British Troops in Egypt in 1947 and then Chief of Staff there in 1948.
He returned to the War Office as Director of Personnel Administration in 1949 and then became Chief of Staff for British Army of the Rhine in 1951. He was appointed Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1954 and Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1956. He served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1958 to 1961 when he became Master-General of the Ordnance.