Percy Radcliffe (British Army officer)

Officers of the Canadian Corps being presented to H.M. The King, August 1916. Brigadier-General Percy Radcliffe is stood tenth on the left.

Percy Radcliffe was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1893.[1] He saw service with 'G' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1900,[1] and was mentioned in dispatches, and was promoted to captain in 1900 and then to major in 1910.[2] He saw active service during World War I on the Western Front,[1] and was made lieutenant colonel in 1916 and a brevet colonel the following year.[2] He was mentioned in dispatches six times during World War I.[2] When William Robertson was replaced as CIGS in early 1918 by Sir Henry Wilson, Radcliffe was appointed Director of Military Operations at the War Office. He replaced Major-General Frederick Maurice.[3] Radcliffe continued as DMO from 1918 until 1922.[1] He was appointed General Officer Commanding 48th (South Midland) Division in 1923, General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1926 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Scottish Command in 1930.[4] His final appointment was as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command from 1933 until his death, when he fell from a horse and had a heart attack, on his sixtieth birthday, in 1934.[5][2]

He was born on 9 February 1874. His parents were W. Pollexfen Radcliffe and Isabel de Blaquiere. He was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy.[2] He married twice - first to Rahmeh Theodora Swinburne in 1918 and then to Florence Alice Coromandel Tagg in 1932.[6]

• Tactical Employment of Field Artillery (which he translated from the French).
• Report on the Franco-British Mission to Poland, July, August 1920