Jocelyn Percy

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Jocelyn Percy
Born(1871-03-09)9 March 1871
Mentioned in Despatches

CMG, DSO (9 March 1871 – 25 August 1952) was a British Army officer and Inspector General of the Royal Albanian Gendarmerie
.

Sir Douglas Haig with his army commanders and their chiefs of staff, November 1918. Front row, left to right: Sir Herbert Plumer, Sir Douglas Haig, Sir Henry Rawlinson. Middle row, left to right: Sir Julian Byng, Sir William Birdwood, Sir Henry Horne. Back row, left to right: Sir Herbert Lawrence, Sir Charles Kavanagh, Brudenell White, Jocelyn Percy, Louis Vaughan, Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Hastings Anderson.

Percy was born in

House of Percy to whom they were distantly related. He returned to England in 1884, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Sevenoaks and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the East Lancashire Regiment
in 1891.

After service in Ireland, Percy was posted to India and served in the 1894 Waziristan campaign and the 1895

mentioned in despatches twice and promoted to brevet
major.

During the

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, awarded the Distinguished Service Order, mentioned in despatches six times, was appointed a Commander of the French Legion of Honour, of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, and of the Order of the Star of Romania, and received the Belgian Croix de guerre and the Order of the Sacred Treasure
of Japan.

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