Brigadier Arthur Christopher Lancelot Stanley-Clarke, CBE, DSO (30 June 1886 – 8 January 1983) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
He was commissioned into the British Army as a second lieutenant on the unattached list in June 1906,[2] before joining the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in August 1909.
He was promoted to the temporary rank of major in March 1916,[7] and in December of the same year he was made an acting lieutenant colonel while commanding the 10th (Service) Battalion, Cameronians, part of the 15th (Scottish) Division.
Stanley-Clarke was seconded in February 1922 to serve as an officer in charge of a contingent of gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
[15] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in April 1931,[16] at which point he relinquished his position as the chief instructor of the small arms school at Hythe.
[22] During the Second World War, which began in September 1939, Stanley-Clarke commanded the 154th (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Brigade during the Battle of France in mid-1940 and in the subsequent Dunkirk evacuation.