Cecil Heywood

Major-General Cecil Percival Heywood (17 May 1880 – 20 October 1936) was a British Army officer who commanded 3rd Division.

Military career Born the second son of Sir Arthur Heywood, 3rd Baronet, Heywood was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards as a second-lieutenant on 12 August 1899. He fought in the Second Boer War, leaving Southampton for South Africa on the SS Canada in early February 1900. Following the war, he became adjutant of the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards in 1904 before undertaking a tour with the Egyptian Army which involved him in operations in Southern Kurdufan in Sudan in 1908.

He served in the First World War, initially as a brigade major before becoming a general staff officer, grade 2 in May 1915. He was promoted in September 1915 to major and was later a General Staff Officer before becoming Commander of 3rd Guards Brigade in 1918.

He is buried in All Saint's Churchyard at Denstone in Staffordshire.

Family In 1917 he married Margaret Vere Kerr; they had a son and a daughter.