Hugh Jeudwine

Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Jeudwine KCB, KBE
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 in 1882 and served in the Second Boer War as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for Cape Colony.^[1] He was promoted to major 4 January 1900.^[2] 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.^[1] 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.^[1] 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.^[3]

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.^[1] His last appointment was as Director General of the Territorial Army in 1923 before he retired in 1927.^[1]

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