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Robert Sturges

Robert Sturges

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Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Grice Sturges KBE, CB, DSO (14 July 1891 – 12 September 1970) was a senior Royal Marines officer who fought in both the First World War and Second World War.

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Military career

Sturges joined the Royal Navy in 1908.[1] Commissioned a sub-lieutenant on 15 May 1912,[2] he transferred to the Royal Marines as a lieutenant from the same date (confirmed on 19 December 1914).[1][3] He served in the First World War, seeing action in the Gallipoli campaign and the Battle of Jutland, and receiving promotion to captain on 30 January 1917.[4][5] He was officially transferred to the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 30 January 1917.[6]

Between the wars, he was promoted to major on 17 June 1929,[7] and to lieutenant colonel on 1 April 1936.[8] He was brevetted colonel and promoted to colonel on 3 April 1939 (seniority 31 December 1938).[9]

During the Second World War he was the commander of the British occupation of Iceland in May 1940. He was promoted to acting colonel commandant and temporary brigadier on 4 June,[10] and was mentioned in despatches in July.[11] He was Commander of the British occupation of Madagascar in 1942.[1] He went on to be Commander of the Special Service Group (Commandos) in 1943.[1] He was described as "intrepid in action, ruddy in countenance, and forcefully bucolic in language".[12] He retired in 1946.[1]

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  1. [1]
    "Robert Grice Sturges". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  2. [2]
    "No. 28609". The London Gazette. 17 May 1912. p. 3583.
  3. [3]
    "No. 29015". The London Gazette. 22 December 1914. p. 10918.
  4. [4]
    Whitehead, p. 352.
  5. [5]
    "No. 29972". The London Gazette. 6 March 1917. p. 2255.
  6. [6]
    "No. 31924". The London Gazette. 1 June 1920. p. 6084.
  7. [7]
    "No. 33520". The London Gazette. 26 July 1929. p. 4926.
  8. [8]
    "No. 34273". The London Gazette. 10 April 1936. p. 2385.
  9. [9]
    "No. 34614". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 April 1939. p. 2344.
  10. [10]
    "No. 34958". The London Gazette. 1 October 1940. p. 5785.
  11. [11]
    "No. 34890". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 July 1940. p. 4152.
  12. [12]
    Lockhart, p. 34.
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