Hugh Massy (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Hugh Royds Stokes Massy, CB, DSO, MC (5 January 1884 – 21 May 1965) was a British Army officer who served during the First and Second World Wars.

Educated at Bradfield College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,^[2] Massy was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1902.^[3] He served with the West African Frontier Force from 1907 and then became adjutant for 4th East Lancashire Brigade in 1913.^[3]

Massy served in the First World War, initially as a staff officer in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and then as a Brigade Major in France.^[3] 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.^[3] 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.^[3] He was appointed Director of Military Training at the War Office in 1938.^[3]

Massy 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.^[4] He retired in 1943.^[3]

He was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1945 to 1951,^[3] and High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1946.^[2]

In 1912 Massy married Maud Ina Nest Roch. They had one son and one daughter.^[2]

• Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.

• British Army Officers 1939−1945
• Generals of World War II