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Maurice Chilton

Maurice Chilton

British Army general

Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Somerville Chilton, KBE, CB (11 January 1898 – 21 August 1956) was a senior officer in the British Army who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1955 to 1956.

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Military career

Educated at Rugby School, Chilton entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 28 July 1915.[1][2] He served in the First World War in France and attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1930.[2] He also served in the Second World War latterly as Chief of Staff for the Second Army[3] and then as Deputy Adjutant General for 21st Army Group.[2]

After the war, Chilton became Director of Air at the War Office and then General Officer Commanding East Anglian District from 1948.[2] He was made General Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Anti-Aircraft Command in 1953; in that capacity, he visited his units on Merseyside and Tyneside.[4] He became Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1955 and died while still serving in that role in 1956.[2]

Family

In 1926 Chilton married Margaret Sinclair.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "No. 29242". The London Gazette. 27 July 1915. p. 7335.
  2. [2]
    "Sir Maurice (Somerville) Chilton". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  3. [3]
    Hamilton, Nigel (1983). Master of the Battlefield Monty's War Years 1942–1944. McGraw-Hill Book Company. p. 735. ISBN 978-0-07-025806-8.
  4. [4]
    Defence Exercise Glasgow Herald, 24 May 1954
  5. [5]
    Chilton genealogy

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