Clifton Inglis Stockwell

Brigadier-General Clifton Inglis Stockwell (1879 – 4 December 1953) was a British Army officer who, during the First World War, commanded the 164th Infantry Brigade between 1916 and 1919. In December 1914, he was a British officer who agreed to a Christmas truce football match with a German officer.

Early life Clifton Inglis Stockwell was born in 1879, the eldest son of the late Colonel C. de N. O. Stockwell of the Lincolnshire Regiment. He was educated at Haileybury and then trained at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. and served with his battalion in China and India. Stockwell recorded the experience in his extant diary now held by the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

In September 1915, after being promoted to major, he was made brigade major of the 59th Infantry Brigade and was once again mentioned in despatches on 1 January 1916. and appointed to command the 164th Infantry Brigade, part of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division. he had one son and two daughters. In 1944, Stockwell married secondly, Madeline, the widow of Lt-Colonel W.C. Critchley-Salmonson. Stockwell died on 4 December 1953.