Percy Radcliffe (British Army officer)

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.

Sir Percy Radcliffe
Born9 February 1874
Died9 February 1934 (aged 60)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1893 - 1934
RankGeneral
Commands held48th (South Midland) Division
4th Division
Scottish Command
Southern Command
Battles/warsSecond Boer War
World War I
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order

Military career

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] He saw active service during World War I on the Western Front.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] His final appointment was as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command from 1933 until his death, when he fell from a horse, in 1934.[4]

Family

He married twice - first to Rahmeh Theodora Swinburne in 1918 and then to Florence Alice Coromandel Tagg in 1932.[5]

Works

  • Tactical Employment of Field Artillery (which he translated from the French).
  • Report on the Franco-British Mission to Poland, July, August 1920

References

  1. "Radcliffe, Percy". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  2. War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, Vol 2, p1782, Odhams Press Ltd. 1936
  3. Army Commands Archived 2015-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
  4. National Library of Australia
  5. The Peerage.com
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Harold Walker
GOC 48th (South Midland) Division
1918–1923
Succeeded by
Thomas Pitman
Preceded by
Reginald Stephens
General Officer Commanding the 4th Division
19261927
Succeeded by
Archibald Cameron
Preceded by
Sir William Peyton
GOC-in-C Scottish Command
19301933
Succeeded by
Sir Archibald Cameron
Preceded by
Sir Cecil Romer
GOC-in-C Southern Command
19331934
Succeeded by
Sir John Burnett-Stuart
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