Hugh Clement Sutton

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Hugh Clement Sutton Maj. Gen. Hugh Clement Sutton, C.G., C.B., C.M.G (20 January1867 – 15 April 1928), was a General in the British Army , Deputy Assistant Director of Railways in South Africa between 1900 and 1902 and Lieutenant – Governor and Secretary of Royal Chelsea Hospital between 1923 and 1928.

Arms of Maj .Gen. Hugh Clement Sutton, C.G., C.B., C.M.G., and his descendants.

Early life Hugh Clement Sutton, was son of Henry George Sutton, sixth son of Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Bt. and

Matilda Harriet Sutton (née Heneage), daughter of George Heneage Walker-Heneage, MP and Henrietta

Vivian.

He was educated in Eton College and The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, near the town of

Sandhurst in Berkshire, England.

Career He was Adjutant Coldstream Guards in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902 (despatches, brevet, two medals, seven clasps). Hugh was appointed as Deputy Assistant Director of Railways in South Africa

between 1900 and 1902. As a Deputy Assistant Adjutant General in Cape Colony between 1903 and 1906 and Cmdg 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards between 1910 and 1913. During the WWI: Hugh was serving as Assistant Adjutant-General in War Office between 1913 and 1916 and as a Deputy Adjutant &

Quartermaster-General (DA and QMG) in British Expeditionary Force (BEF) between 1916 and 1917.

Awards and recognitions He was invested as a Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.) in 1916 and as a Companion, Order of St

Michael and St George (C.M.G.) in 1919. Also mentioned in despatches, Russian Imperial Order St Anne 2nd class (K.St.A.), Japanese order of the rising sun.


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