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Edward Perceval
Born13 August 1861
Died26 November 1955 (aged 94)
Farnham, Surrey, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1880−
RankMajor-General
UnitRoyal Artillery
Commands49th (West Riding) Division
68th (2nd Welsh) Division
Battles / warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

Major-General Sir Edward Maxwell Perceval KCB, DSO (13 August 1861 – 26 November 1955) was a British Army officer.

Military career

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Lieutenant General Sir Douglas Haig, GOC I Corps, confers with Major General Charles Monro, GOC 2nd Division, in a street in France, August 1914. Second from right is Brigadier General J. Gough, Haig's BGGS, talking to Brigadier General E. M. Perceval, BGRA 2nd Division.

Educated at Royal Academy, Gosport and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Perceval was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant on 19 May 1880.[1] He was promoted captain on 4 August 1888, and major on 23 February 1898.[2] He saw action in the Second Boer War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).[3]

After the end of the war, he was appointed a professor at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[4] In November 1905 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.[5] In March 1909 he succeeded Walter Braithwaite as a general staff officer, grade 1 (GSO1) at the Staff College, Camberley.[6]

He became Commander, Royal Artillery for the 2nd Division in April 1914, and deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August 1914 at the start of the First World War.[7] He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in February 1915.[8] In June he was promoted to the rank of major general[9] and became general officer commanding (GOC) of the 49th (West Riding) Division, which was also engaged on the Western Front, in July, which he would command for over two years, including during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. After falling ill, he returned to the UK to become GOC of the 68th (2nd Welsh) Division in December 1917.[10] After that he became Commander of the troops at Shorncliffe Army Camp in 1919.[11]

Family

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In 1894 he married Marian Bowles; they had one son.[11] After his first wife died in 1896, he married Norah Mayne in 1906; they had one son and one daughter.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "No. 24848". The London Gazette. 28 May 1880. p. 3221.
  2. ^ Hart′s Army list, 1904
  3. ^ "No. 27306". The London Gazette. 19 April 1901. p. 2700.
  4. ^ "No. 27519". The London Gazette. 27 January 1903. p. 534.
  5. ^ "No. 27854". The London Gazette. 14 November 1905. p. 7598.
  6. ^ "No. 28236". The London Gazette. 26 March 1909. p. 2350.
  7. ^ "2nd Division". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  8. ^ "No. 29074". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 February 1915. p. 1686.
  9. ^ "No. 29202". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 June 1915. p. 6116.
  10. ^ "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  11. ^ a b c Obituary: Major-General Sir Edward Maxwell Perceval KCB, DSO, The Times, 26 November 1955
Military offices
Preceded by GOC 49th (West Riding) Division
1915–1917 		Succeeded by
Preceded by GOC 68th (2nd Welsh) Division
1917–1919 		Succeeded by
Post disbanded
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