Hugh Archdale

{{Short description|British Army officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Brigadier-General |name=Hugh Archdale |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|CMG}} |birth_date=15 January 1854 |birth_place= London |death_date=31 August 1921 |death_place=London |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= United Kingdom |service_years= |rank= Brigadier-General |branch= British Army |current position= |commands=North Midland Division |unit= |battles=Second Boer War |awards=Companion of the Order of the Bath<br />Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George |other_work= }} Brigadier-General '''Hugh James Archdale''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|CMG}} (15 January 1854 – 31 August 1921) was a British Army officer.

==Military career== Educated at Cheltenham College, Archdale was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1875.<ref name=thoms>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5_HDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6|title=Thom's Irish Who's Who|year=1923|publisher=Alexander Thom}}</ref> After serving in Sudan, Burma and Crete, Archdale saw action in the Second Boer War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27448|page=4192|date=24 June 1902}}</ref> He became commandant of the Imperial Yeomanry Discharge Depot at Aldershot in 1903 and in January 1907 was promoted to substantive colonel and temporary brigadier general while employed as commander of a grouped regimental district.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27985|page=257|date=11 January 1907}}</ref>

He was the first general officer commanding of the North Midland Division in April 1908 before retiring from the army in January 1911.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf|title=Army Commands|accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28457|page=415|date=17 January 1911}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl|title=GOC North Midland Division|years=1908–1911}} {{s-aft|after=Hubert Hamilton}} {{s-end}}

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