Hugh Jeudwine

Sir Hugh Jeudwine
Lt. Gen. Sir Hugh Jeudwine
Born	1862
Died	1942 (aged 79–80)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1882 - 1927
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	41st Infantry Brigade 55th (West Lancashire) Division 5th Infantry Division Territorial Army
Battles/wars	Second Boer War World War I
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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.^[1] He served in the Second Boer War 1899-1900, and was promoted to major on 4 January 1900.^[2] He again served in South Africa as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for Cape Colony in 1902.^[3] Following the end of the war in June 1902, he left Cape Town on the SS Canada and returned to Southampton in late July.^[4] 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.^[3] 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.^[3] 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.^[5]

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.^[3] His last appointment was as Director General of the Territorial Army in 1923 before he retired in 1927.^[3]

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