Cecil Sugden

General Sir Cecil Stanway Sugden, (4 December 1903 – 25 March 1963) was a senior British Army officer who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1962 to 1963.

Military career Educated at Brighton College, Sugden was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Engineers on 29 August 1923. He attended the Staff College, Quetta from 1932 to 1933.

Sugden served in the Second World War in North Africa and then was Director of Plans at the War Office from 1943. After the war he became Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1945. He became a brigadier on the General Staff at Headquarters British Troops in Egypt in 1947, the same year he served as an instructor at the Imperial Defence College, and then chief of staff there in 1948.

Sugden returned to the War Office as Director of Personnel Administration in 1949 and then became chief of staff for British Army of the Rhine in 1951. He was appointed Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1954 and Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1956. He served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1958 to 1961, when he became Master-General of the Ordnance.