Hugh Massy (British Army officer)

Educated at Bradfield College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,[1] Massy was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1902.[2] He served with the West African Frontier Force from 1907 and then became Adjutant for 4th East Lancashire Brigade in 1913.[2]

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.[2]

After the war he attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1919 and 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, Quetta.[2] After attending the Imperial Defence College in 1930, he was an instructor at the Senior Officers' School, Belgaum from 1932 and then became a brigadier with Southern Command in 1934.[2] He was appointed Director of Military Training at the War Office in 1938.[2]

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[3] and retired in 1943.[2]

He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1945 to 1951.[2]

He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1946.[1]

In 1912 he married Maud Ina Nest Roch. They had one son and one daughter.[1]