Maurice Chilton
{{Short description|British Army general (1898–1956)}}
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| branch = British Army
| serviceyears = 1915–1956
| rank = Lieutenant General
| servicenumber = 13379
| unit = Royal Artillery
| commands = East Anglian District
Anti-Aircraft Command
| battles = First World War
Second World War
| awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Somerville Chilton, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|KBE|CB}} (11 January 1898 – 21 August 1956) was a senior officer in the British Army who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1955 to 1956.
Military career
Educated at Rugby School, Chilton entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 28 July 1915.{{London Gazette|issue=29242|page=7335|date=27 July 1915}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/CHILTON2.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925030223/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/CHILTON2.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2012|title= Sir Maurice (Somerville) Chilton |publisher= Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|accessdate=7 June 2020}} He served in the First World War in France and attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1930. He also served in the Second World War latterly as Chief of Staff for the Second Army{{cite book |title=Master of the Battlefield Monty's War Years 1942–1944 |url=https://archive.org/details/masterofbattlefi00hami |url-access=registration |last1=Hamilton |first1=Nigel |publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Company |year= 1983 |page=[https://archive.org/details/masterofbattlefi00hami/page/735 735] |isbn=978-0-07-025806-8 }} and then as Deputy Adjutant General for 21st Army Group.
After the war, Chilton became Director of Air at the War Office and then General Officer Commanding East Anglian District from 1948. He was made General Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Anti-Aircraft Command in 1953; in that capacity, he visited his units on Merseyside and Tyneside.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19540524&id=OC01AAAAIBAJ&sjid=7qULAAAAIBAJ&pg=5165,2590424 Defence Exercise] Glasgow Herald, 24 May 1954 He became Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1955 and died while still serving in that role in 1956.
Family
In 1926, Chilton married Margaret Sinclair.[http://dcodriscoll.pbworks.com/Chilton Chilton genealogy]
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|first=Nick|last=Smart|title=Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War|isbn=1844150496|year=2005|location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire|publisher=Pen and Sword Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ogTMDwAAQBAJ}}
External links
- [https://generals.dk/general/Chilton/Maurice_Somerville/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]
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