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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.

Military career

Cleeve was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant on 29 April 1873. He served in Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80), was promoted to captain on 1 September 1882, to major on 12 February 1890, and to lieutenant-colonel on 3 January 1899. He was appointed Chief Instructor in Gunnery in 1901, and promoted to colonel on 3 January 1903. In 1914 he was appointed commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, holding that post throughout the First World War.

Cleeve was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1916.

Family

In 1894, Cleeve married Gwladys Elizabeth Mitchell.

References

1. UK, British Army Lists, 1882–1962
2. ^ "Cleeve, William Frederick". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009.
3. Hart′s Army list, 1904
4. "No. 27513". The London Gazette. 6 January 1903. p. 110.
5. "No. 29608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1916. p. 5554.
6. Walford, Edward (1860). The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: R. Hardwicke. p. 269.

External links

• William Cleeve at Find a Grave

• 1853 births
• 1922 deaths
• British Army major generals
• British Army generals of World War I
• Commandants of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
• Royal Artillery officers
• Companions of the Order of the Bath
• English justices of the peace
• British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
• 19th-century British Army personnel