| 词条 | Hugh Massy (British Army officer) |
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| name =Hugh Massy | image = | caption = | birth_date =5 January 1884 | death_date =21 May 1965 (aged 81) | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | birth_place = | death_place = | nickname = | allegiance ={{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch ={{army|United Kingdom}} | serviceyears = | rank =Lieutenant General | unit =Royal Artillery | commands =XI Corps | battles =First World War Second World War | awards =Companion of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order Military Cross | relations = | laterwork = }} Lieutenant General Hugh Royds Stokes Massy {{postnominals|country=GBR||CB|DSO|MC}} (5 January 1884 – 21 May 1965) was a British Army officer who served during the First and Second World Wars. Military careerEducated at Bradfield College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,[1] Massy was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1902.[2] He served with the West African Frontier Force from 1907 and then became Adjutant for 4th East Lancashire Brigade in 1913.[2] He served in the First World War, initially as a staff officer in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and then as a Brigade Major in France.[2] After the war he attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1919 and became a brigade major with Irish Command in 1920 and then went to India, initially as a staff officer, and then as an instructor at the Staff College, Quetta.[2] After attending the Imperial Defence College in 1930, he was an instructor at the Senior Officers' School, Belgaum from 1932 and then became a brigadier with Southern Command in 1934.[2] He was appointed Director of Military Training at the War Office in 1938.[2] He served in the Second World War, initially as Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff and then as Commander-in-Chief of the North West Expeditionary Force to Central Norway in 1940; he went on to command XI Corps in East Anglia from July 1940 to November 1941[3] and retired in 1943.[2] He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1945 to 1951.[2] He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1946.[1] FamilyIn 1912 he married Maud Ina Nest Roch. They had one son and one daughter.[1] References1. ^1 2 The Peerage.com {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{succession box | title = Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff | before =Sir Ronald Adam | after =Sir John Dill 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 3. ^Army Commands {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |date=5 July 2015 }} As Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff | years = 1939–1940}} |-{{S-bef|before=New post}}{{S-ttl|title=GOC, XI Corps|years=1940–1941}}{{S-aft|after=Noel Irwin}}{{end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Massy, Hugh}} 13 : 1884 births|1965 deaths|British Army generals of World War II|British Army personnel of World War I|People educated at Bradfield College|Companions of the Order of the Bath|Companions of the Distinguished Service Order|Recipients of the Military Cross|High Sheriffs of Pembrokeshire|Royal West African Frontier Force officers|Royal Artillery officers|Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich|Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley |
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