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Lieutenant General Hugh Royds Stokes Massy (5 January 1884 – 21 May 1965) was a British Army general during the Second World War. ==Military career== Educated at Bradfield College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,〔(The Peerage.com )〕 Massy was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1902.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served with the West African Frontier Force from 1907 and then became Adjutant for 4th East Lancashire Brigade in 1913.〔 He served in the First World War, initially as a staff officer in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and then as a Brigade Major in France.〔 After the war he became a Brigade Major with Irish Command in 1920 and then went to India, initially as a staff officer, and then as an Instructor at the Staff College at Quetta.〔 He was an Instructor at the Senior Officers' School, Belgaum from 1932 and then became a brigadier with Southern Command in 1934.〔 He was appointed Director of Military Training at the War Office in 1938.〔 He served in the Second World War, initially as Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff and then as Commander-in-Chief of the North West Expeditionary Force to Central Norway in 1940; he went on to command XI Corps in East Anglia from July 1940 to November 1941〔(Army Commands )〕 and retired in 1943.〔 He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1945 to 1951.〔 He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1946.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh Massy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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