Percy Radcliffe (British Army officer)

General Sir Percy Pollexfen de Blaquiere Radcliffe, KCB, KCMG, DSO (9 February 1874 – 9 February 1934) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1930s.

[2] He saw service with 'G' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1900,[2] was mentioned in dispatches, and was promoted to captain in 1900 and then to major in October 1910.

[1] When William Robertson was replaced as Chief of the Imperial General Staff in early 1918 by Sir Henry Wilson, Radcliffe, promoted in June 1918 to substantive major general,[4] was appointed director of military operations at the War Office.

[6] His final appointment was as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command from 1933 until his death, when he fell from a horse and had a heart attack, on his sixtieth birthday, in 1934.

[8] Radcliffe married twice – first to Rahmeh Theodora Swinburne in 1918 and then to Florence Alice Coromandel Tagg in 1932.