Major-General Sir Ivor Thomas Percival Hughes, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO, MC, DL (21 December 1897 – 16 August 1962) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the world wars.
[4] Hughes, by now a captain,[6] then attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1929 to 1930,[7] where his fellow students included numerous future general officers, such as Neil Ritchie, Herbert Lumsden and George Erskine, Reginald Denning, Hugh Stable, Kenneth Crawford, Temple Gurdon, Neil McMicking, I. S. O. Playfair, Harold Redman, James Elliott, and Harold Freeman-Attwood.
[4] After several months of training in Dorset, the battalion was sent overseas to France, arriving there in early April 1940 where it became part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
[4] Only a few weeks later the German Army launched its attack in the West, and the battalion moved up to the River Escaut and was ordered to hold the line there.
[2] Soon afterwards the battalion, along with the rest of the brigade and the division, now commanded by Major General Arthur Percival, reorganised in Oxford, later being sent to Lincolnshire, and began anti-invasion duties in the event of a German invasion.
[8] Hughes, in late October, was promoted to brigadier and given command of the 219th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), one of the many newly raised units composed almost entirely of conscripts, most of whom were civilians with little to no previous military experience, created specifically for static beach defence.
[4] Horrocks later wrote in his autobiography that he, "hated having to leave this [44th] division, which I had been training for nine months, though it was some consolation to know that I was to be succeeded by Ivor Hughes, a 'Queensman' himself, who had been commanding the 131st Queens Brigade.
[4][11] However, in mid-August, the division was ordered by General Sir Harold Alexander, the newly appointed Commander-in-chief (C-in-C) Middle East Command, to join the British Eighth Army at El Alamein.
[4] He was then, from 1944 to 1945, a member of the Military Liaison Mission to Greece, Yugoslavia, and Albania, and retired from the army, with the honorary rank of major general, in 1945.