Cecil Romer

General Sir Cecil Francis Romer GCB KBE CMG (14 November 1869 – 1962) was a British Army general who reached high command during the 1920s.

Military career
Born at Ifield in Sussex, Cecil Romer was commissioned into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1890 and served in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902. He went on to become a General Staff Officer in 1904.

In World War I he fought on the Western Front. He was General Officer Commanding 59th Division between 1917 and 1918.

He became General Officer Commanding 1st Division at Aldershot in 1926. He was then elevated to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command in 1928 and to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command in 1931. In 1933 he was appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces: he retired in 1935.