Oliver Nugent
Sir Oliver Stewart Wood Nugent KCB DSO | |
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| Born | 9 November 1860 Major-General |
| Unit | Royal Munster Fusiliers King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Commands held | 41st Brigade 36th (Ulster) Division Meerut Division |
| Battles/wars | Chitral Expedition Hazara Expedition of 1888 Second Boer War First World War * Battle of the Somme |
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Military career
He was the son of Major General St George Nugent and Emily, daughter of the Right Honourable Edward Litton, who was a senior Irish judge and MP for Coleraine at Westminster.[2]
Nugent was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst before joining the
After his return to the United Kingdom, he was on 19 October 1902 appointed deputy assistant quartermaster general to the 3rd Army Corps,[5] stationed in Ireland. The First World War saw him serving in England until 1915 when he was appointed to command the 41st Brigade (part of the 14th (Light) Division) on the Western Front. In September 1915 he was appointed to command the 36th (Ulster) Division with which he served until 1918. He was promoted to major-general 1 January 1916.[6]
Nugent devised the strategy that led to the Ulster Division
He commanded the Meerut Division in India from August 1918[6] to 1920, and retired in 1920 to the family estate in Farren Connell, County Cavan,[2] where he died from pneumonia on 31 May 1926.[8] He was knighted in the New Year Honours 1922.[9] Nugent's portrait by William Conor is in Belfast City Hall.
References
- ^ Nugent 2007, p. 1.
- ^ a b c "Major General Sir Oliver Nugent, by Dr Ian Adamson OBE". Impala Publishers Blog Page. 8 August 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- ^ Quarterly Army List for quarter ending 31 December 1917 – part 2 War Services
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1903
- ^ "No. 27487". The London Gazette. 24 October 1902. p. 6738.
- ^ a b January 1919 Indian Army List
- ^ "No. 29886". The London Gazette. 29 December 1916. p. 2.
- ^ "Major-General Sir Oliver Nugent". The Times. No. 44287. 2 June 1926. p. 16.
- ^ "No. 32563". The London Gazette. 30 December 1921. p. 10712.
Bibliography
- Nugent, Oliver (2007). Major-General Oliver Nugent and the Ulster Division 1915−1918. Sutton Pub. ISBN 978-0750948807.
- Perry, Nicholas (2020). Major-General Oliver Nugent: The Irishman who led the Ulster Division in the Great War. Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 978-1909556829.
External links
- Somme hero's 'lost' medals go on display, The Newsletter
- Somme hero's 'lost' medals go on display, Ulster Gazette
- Art UK Nugent's portrait in Belfast City Hall
- . . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource.
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