Cecil William Park | |
Birth Date: | 19 June 1856 |
Death Date: | 29 March 1913 |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Rank: | Major-General |
Branch: | British Army |
Commands: | 1st Bn the Devonshire Regiment Nasirabad Brigade East Lancashire Division |
Battles: | Second Anglo-Afghan War Second Boer War |
Awards: | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Major-General Cecil William Park (19 June 1856– 29 March 1913) was a British Army officer.
Educated at Haileybury, Park was commissioned into the British Army in 1875.[1] After seeing action in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879, he became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion the Devonshire Regiment and was deployed to South Africa in 1899 during the Second Boer War.[1] His battalion's charge on the boers on Waggon Hill on 6 January 1900 during the Relief of Ladysmith was described as "the crowning episode of the day".[2] [3]
He became assistant adjutant-general for South Eastern District in 1902, deputy adjutant-general in India in July 1903 and commandant of the Nasirabad Brigade in January 1906.[4] His last post was as General Officer Commanding East Lancashire Division in October 1910 before his death in command of his division on 29 March 1913.[5]