Peter Strickland (British Army officer)
Sir Peter Strickland | |
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Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order |
First World War
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Military career
Educated at
Burma in 1888/1889, on the Dongola expedition in 1896,[2] and fought at the Battle of Atbara and the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.[1] He served in North Nigeria from 1906 and commanded the North Nigeria Regiment in 1909.[2]
He served in the
General Officer Commanding 1st Division on the Western Front from 1916 until the end of the war, leading it at the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Lys.[2]
After the war Strickland became commander of the Western Division of the
6th Division in Ireland,[2] in which role he survived an assassination attempt by the Irish Republican Army in Cork in September 1920 before assuming the additional responsibilities of military governor (under Martial law) for the counties of Munster, Kilkenny and Wexford in January 1921.[1] He was appointed General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1923 and General Officer Commanding the British Troops in Egypt in 1927 before retiring in 1931.[2]
From 1917 to 1946 Strickland was the Colonel of the
Norfolk Regiment.[3]
Family
In 1918, Strickland married Barbara Cresswell (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1923.[1]
Honours
- Distinguished Service Order – 1899
- Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George– 1913
- Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath– 1919 (Companion (CB) 1917)
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire– 1923
- Third class, Order of Medjidie – 1902 – in recognition of valuable services rendered to Hs Highness the Khedive of Egypt[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Peter Strickland at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ a b c d e Sir Edward Peter Strickland Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ "9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 2 January 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "No. 27415". The London Gazette. 11 March 1902. p. 1727.
