Cecil Park (British Army officer)

Major-General Cecil William Park CB (19 June 1856– 29 March 1913) was a British Army officer.

Educated at Haileybury, Park was commissioned into the British Army in 1875.

[1] After seeing action in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879, he became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion the Devonshire Regiment and was deployed to South Africa in 1899 during the Second Boer War.

[1] His battalion's charge on the boers on Waggon Hill on 6 January 1900 during the Relief of Ladysmith was described as "the crowning episode of the day".

[4] In June he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1906 Birthday Honours.