William Cleeve | |
Birth Date: | 24 January 1853[1] |
Death Date: | 31 January 1922 (aged 69) |
Placeofburial Label: | Place of burial |
Placeofburial: | Llanfrechfa, Wales |
Birth Place: | Barbados, Lesser Antilles |
Death Place: | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Branch: | British Army |
Serviceyears: | 1873 – 1918 |
Rank: | Major-General |
Commands: | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich |
Battles: | Second Anglo-Afghan War World War I |
Awards: | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Major-General William Frederick Cleeve (24 January 1853 - 31 January 1922) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Cleeve was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant on 29 April 1873.[2] He served in Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80),[2] was promoted to captain on 1 September 1882, to major on 12 February 1890, and to lieutenant-colonel on 3 January 1899.[3] He was appointed Chief Instructor in Gunnery in 1901, and promoted to colonel on 3 January 1903. In 1914 he was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, holding that post throughout World War I.[2]
Cleeve was appointed as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1916.
In 1894, he married Gwladys Elizabeth Mitchell.[4]