About Hugh Archdale
Lived 1854 – 1921 (aged 67). Hugh Archdale was a military leader.
Brigadier-General Hugh James Archdale (15 January 1854 – 31 August 1921) was a British Army officer.
Military career Educated at Cheltenham College, Archdale was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1875. After serving in Sudan, Burma and Crete, Archdale saw action in the Second Boer War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He became commandant of the Imperial Yeomanry Discharge Depot at Aldershot in 1903 and in January 1907 was promoted to substantive colonel and temporary brigadier general while employed as commander of a grouped regimental district.
He was the first general officer commanding of the North Midland Division in April 1908 before retiring from the army in January 1911.
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Hugh Archdale was born on 15 January 1854.
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Hugh Archdale died on 31 August 1921.
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