Major-General William Frederick Cleeve, CB, JP (24 January 1853 – 31 January 1922) was a British Army officer who served as commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from 1914 to 1918.

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.[4] In 1914 he was appointed commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, holding that post throughout the First World War.[2]

Cleeve was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1916.[5]

Family

In 1894, Cleeve married Gwladys Elizabeth Mitchell.[6]

References

  1. ^ UK, British Army Lists, 1882–1962
  2. ^ a b c "Cleeve, William Frederick". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009.
  3. ^ Hart′s Army list, 1904
  4. ^ "No. 27513". The London Gazette. 6 January 1903. p. 110.
  5. ^ "No. 29608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1916. p. 5554.
  6. ^ Walford, Edward (1860). The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: R. Hardwicke. p. 269.
Military offices
Preceded by Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich
1914–1918 		Succeeded by
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