Major-General William Frederick Cleeve, CB, JP (24 January 1853 – 31 January 1922) was a British Army officer who served as commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from 1914 to 1918.
Cleeve was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant on 29 April 1873.
[2] He served in Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80),[2] was promoted to captain on 1 September 1882, to major on 12 February 1890, and to lieutenant-colonel on 3 January 1899.
[3] He was appointed Chief Instructor in Gunnery in 1901, and promoted to colonel on 3 January 1903.
[4] In 1914 he was appointed commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, holding that post throughout the First World War.