Cyril Wagstaff

Major-General Cyril Mosley Wagstaff (5 March 1878 – 21 February 1934) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Military career Educated at the United Services College, Wagstaff was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1897.

Group portrait of officers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps outside Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, Egypt, March 1915. Stood on the extreme left is Major Cyril Wagstaff, then a GSO2.

He served on the North West Frontier of India and in the First World War with the Australian Army and is credited with creating the term ANZAC. He was promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel in October 1915 brevet lieutenant colonel in January 1917, and brevet colonel in June 1919.

He served as a brigadier general, general staff of Northern Command, India in October 1920. He was appointed a General Staff Officer at the War Office in 1925, Commander of the Nowshera Brigade on the North West Frontier of India in 1928 and promoted to major general in February 1931, was commandant of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich in 1930 before his death in 1934. Following the death of his first wife, he married Marjorie Frances Fry in 1927.