William Cleeve Explained

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.

Military career

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.

Family

In 1894, he married Gwladys Elizabeth Mitchell.[4]

Notes and References

  1. UK, British Army Lists, 1882–1962
  2. Web site: Cleeve, William Frederick. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. https://web.archive.org/web/20090322033904/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/CLEEVE.shtml . 22 March 2009 . dead.
  3. Hart′s Army list, 1904
  4. Book: Walford, Edward . The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 269. 1860. London: R. Hardwicke.