Years of service 1882 - 1927 Rank Lieutenant general Service/branch British Army | Died 1942 Name Hugh Jeudwine Allegiance United Kingdom | |
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Commands held 41st Infantry Brigade
55th (West Lancashire) Division
5th Infantry Division
Territorial Army Battles/wars Second Boer War
World War I Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire Battles and wars Second Boer War, World War I | ||
Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Sandham Jeudwine, KCB, KBE (1862–1942) was a British Army officer who became Director General of the Territorial Army.
Military career
Jeudwine was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant on 22 February 1882, and was promoted to captain on 31 December 1890. He served in the Second Boer War 1899-1900, and was promoted to major on 4 January 1900. He again served in South Africa as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for Cape Colony in 1902. Following the end of the war in June 1902, he left Cape Town on the SS Canada and returned to Southampton 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. He served in World War I 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 in Autumn 1917 and then played a crucial role in holding the German Sixth Army at Givenchy in April 1918.
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. His last appointment was as Director General of the Territorial Army in 1923 before he retired in 1927.