Major-General Clifford Cecil Malden (1890 – 25 March 1941) was a British Army officer who served in both of the world wars.
Born in 1890 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Malden was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment on 4 April 1908[1] and saw service as a captain during the First World War.
[2][3] He remained in the army during the interwar period and attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1924 to 1925, as a student, and soon returned as an instructor.
[3] He played cricket and hockey for the British Army and, from 1934 to 1936 he was Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment.
[5][6] His command was destined to be short-lived, however, as he was inadvertently killed after setting off a mine at Shoreham-by-Sea in March 1941.