Lancelot Hickes

Major General Lancelot Daryl Hickes CB OBE MC (1884-1965) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.

Biography
Born on 30 May 1884, Lancelot Hickes was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He received his first commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1903. He served during the First World War and was mentioned in dispatches four times, receiving the OBE and the Military Cross. Promoted to the rank of Major General in 1938, he was General Officer Commanding, 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division, between 1938 and 1939. He served during the Second World War and was Director of Staff Duties at the War Office between 1939 and 1941.

Major General Lancelot Hickes became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1919, and a Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1941. He retired from the British Army in 1942 and died on 4 October 1965.