Cyril Deverell
Army officer
Died when: 72 years 184 days (870 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell GCB KBE ADC DL (9 November 1874 – 12 May 1947) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, from 1936 to 1937.
Prior to his becoming CIGS, he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War and the First World War, during which he commanded at battalion, brigade and division level, and later advised the British government on the importance of maintaining the capability to mount an Expeditionary Force for operations on mainland Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War.
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