Hugh Bruce Williams

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Major General Hugh Bruce Williams was a British Army officer.

Military career

Major General Hugh Bruce Williams was born in 1865, the son of a general in the British Armed Forces. [1]

He was educated at Winchester College, followed by the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from where he graduated and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in April 1885. [2] [1]

He attended the Staff College, Camberley in the late 1890s and later served in the Second Boer War, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). [1]

He was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in December 1914, [3] some four months after the First World War broke out.

After being promoted to temporary major general [4] and serving as chief of staff of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army on the Western Front, he went on to take command of the 137th (Staffordshire) Infantry Brigade, part of the 46th (North Midland) Division. In 1916 he took command of the 37th Division. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Harris, Paul (26 April 2021). "Sir Hugh Bruce Williams". Paul Harris. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  2. "No. 25469". The London Gazette . 12 May 1885. p. 2157.
  3. "No. 29002". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 December 1914. p. 10572.
  4. "No. 29298". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 September 1915. p. 9202.