Cedric Rhys Price
{{Short description|British Army general}}
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Major-General Cedric Rhys Price CB, CBE (1905–1987) was a British Army officer who served as Director of Military Intelligence.
Military career
Educated at Selborne College in South Africa and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Rhys Price was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1925.{{cite web|url=http://peek-01.livejournal.com/33362.html|title=South African history musings|date=13 February 2009|publisher=Ross Dix-Peek|accessdate=9 November 2015}} He served in the Second World War as an officer in the 56th (London) Division and then as assistant military secretary in the War Office.
After the War he became Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the British Joint Services Mission in Washington, D.C. in 1952, Brigadier on the General Staff at Eastern Command in February 1955 and Director of Military Intelligence in June 1956 before retiring in August 1959.{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |title=Army commands |accessdate=9 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112744/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |archivedate=4 March 2016 }}
After leaving the Army he joined the staff of the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1945 Birthday Honours{{London Gazette|issue=37119|supp=y|page=2942|date=14 June 1945}} and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1951 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=39104|supp=y|page=3|date=29 December 1950}}
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Category:War Office personnel in World War II
Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Category:Alumni of Selborne College
Category:British Army personnel of World War II
Category:British Army major generals
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire