Cecil Wotton Toovey

Major-General Cecil Wotton Toovey, CB, CBE, MC & Bar (17 April 1891 – 23 February 1954) was a senior British Indian Army officer who commanded the North Western Army, India during the Second World War.

Military career Toovey was educated at Malvern College and commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment from the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps on 3 May 1913. He served with his regiment during the early part of the First World War before transferring to the Indian Army in 1917, where he was attached to the 82nd Punjabis. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for organising and leading a counterattack when in command of his battalion in 1919 on the North West Frontier.

After attending the Staff College, Quetta from 1924 to 1925, he was awarded a bar to his MC for gallantry during operations on the North West Frontier during 1930–31. He was appointed Commanding Officer (CO) of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment in January 1937 then Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at General Headquarters, India in April 1939. and died on 23 February 1954.