Major-General Sir Cecil Edward Pereira, KCB, CMG (24 July 1869 – 26 October 1942) was a British Army officer who commanded the 2nd Division during the First World War.
Educated at the Oratory School, Edgbaston, and later at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Pereira was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in January 1890.
[10] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in November 1913[11] and then served in the First World War and was appointed commanding officer (CO) of the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards in 1914.
In February 1915 he was promoted to brevet colonel[12] and in May was granted the temporary rank of brigadier general when he was placed in command of the 85th Infantry Brigade,[13] which he led at the Battle of Loos in September–October that year.
[19] In 1903 Pereira married Helen Mary Josephine (Nellie) Lane Fox; they had three sons and two daughters.