Frederick Hugh Cunliffe
Frederick Hugh Cunliffe | |
|---|---|
| Spouse(s) |
Ella Sophie Gaussen
(m. 1895–1950) |
| Children | 1 |
Frederick Hugh Gordon Cunliffe,
Biography
Early life and family
Frederick was born on 6 September 1861 as the son of Major General George Gordon Cunliffe and Pauline Lumsdaine. He married Ella Sophie Gaussen in 1895 and had Cecile Gertrude Cunliffe.
Military service
Cunliffe began his military service by studying at the United Services College, Westward Ho! and entered service initially on the 1st Warwickshire Militia before serving in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers in 1887.[1]
His first instance of military combat was in the
World War I
When World War I broke out, Cunliffe was Commandant of the Nigeria Regiment and was assigned to the Kamerun campaign and around 1915, in order to take the German fortresses at Garua, he commenced the Second Battle of Garua which ended in a British victory and pushed further to give pressure to Central Kamerun and would again, engage the Germans at the Battle of Ngaundere which also ended in a British victory.[3]
Later on, he was the prime British commander on the later half of the
Later years
Cunliffe died on 13 June 1955 in London aged 93.
References
- ^ https://gwfattachments.s3.amazonaws.com/monthly_08_2015/post-43672-0-37153500-1438598687.jpg [bare URL image file]
- ^ Joslin, Litherland and Simpkin. British Battles and Medals. p. 123. Published Spink, London. 1988.
- ^ James B. Bryce; Holland Thomson; William M.F. Petrie (1920). The Book of History: The Causes of the War. The Events of 1914-1915. Vol. 16. Grolier Society. p. 416. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ Edmund Dane (1919). British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918. London: Hodder and Stoughton. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
- ISBN 0-393-30564-3.