Major General Hugh Bruce Williams was a British Army officer.
[2][1] He attended the Staff College, Camberley in the late 1890s and later served in the Second Boer War, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
[1] Having been made a lieutenant colonel in July 1908,[3] he was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in December 1914,[4] some four months after the First World War broke out.
After being promoted once again, now to temporary major general[5] and serving as chief of staff of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army on the Western Front, he went on to succeed Brigadier General Edward Feetham in command of the 137th (Staffordshire) Infantry Brigade,[6] part of the 46th (North Midland) Division.
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