Hubert Huddleston

Hubert Huddleston

Memorial in Sherborne Abbey.
Born (1880-01-20)20 January 1880
Died 2 October 1950(1950-10-02) (aged 70)
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  British Army
Years of service 18981947
Rank Major-General
Unit Coldstream Guards
Dorset Regiment
Commands held Sudan
14th Infantry Brigade
Northern Ireland District
Governor General of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross

Major-General Sir Hubert Jervoise Huddleston GCMG GBE CB DSO MC (20 January 1880 – 2 October 1950) was a senior British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.

Military career

Educated at Felsted School and Bedford School, Huddleston joined the British Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Coldstream Guards in 1898. He then served in the Second Boer War.[1] He took part in operations in the Orange Free State from April to May 1900. He served in the Transvaal May and June 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, and at the Battle of Diamond Hill. During the war he transferred to the Dorsetshire Regiment as a second lieutenant 26 May 1900, and was promoted to lieutenant on 19 November 1901. He was mentioned in dispatches for actions in December 1901 ("for dash and leading … which lead to captures", dated 25 April 1902[2]).

Huddleston also served in World War I and became General Officer Commanding (GOC) Sudan in 1924.[1] He was appointed commander of the 14th Infantry Brigade in 1930 and then joined Eastern Command in India in 1934.[1] He became Commander for the Baluchistan District in Western Command of India in 1935.[1] He was appointed Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and was then briefly GOC Northern Ireland District from April to July 1940 before being appointed Governor General of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan later that year.[1] He retired from that post in the face of considerable local criticism[3] in 1947.[1]

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Military offices
Preceded by
Robert Pollok
General Officer Commanding the British Army in Northern Ireland
1940
Succeeded by
Ridley Pakenham-Walsh
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