Robert Sturges

Lieutenant General Sir Robert Grice Sturges KBE, CB, DSO (1891 - 1970) was an officer in the British Armed Forces, Royal Marines.

In World War I, Sturges fought in the Gallipoli Campaign and the Battle of Jutland. [Whitehead, p. 352.]

In World War II, Sturges commanded British forces in the Invasion of Iceland and the Battle of Madagascar. He was described as "intrepid in action, ruddy in countenance, and forcefully bucolic in language". [Lockhart, p. 34.] He retired in 1946 having achieved the rank of Lieutenant General.

Military career

* 1908 Joined Royal Navy
* 1912 Transferred to Royal Marine Light Infantry
* 1940 General Officer Commanding, Royal Marines Division
* 1940 General Officer Commanding, British Occupation of Iceland
* 1942 General Officer Commanding, British Forces on Madagascar
* 1942 - 1945 Aide-de-Camp to the King
* 1943 - 1945 General Officer Commanding, Commandos and Special Service Group
* 1946 Retired

Notes

References

* "Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975". https://kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/STURGES.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.
* Lockhart, R. H. Bruce (1950). "The Marines Were There: The Story of the Royal Marines in the Second World War". Putnam, London.
* Whitehead, Þór (1995). "Milli vonar og ótta: Ísland í síðari heimsstyrjöld". Vaka-Helgafell, Reykjavík. ISBN 9979-2-0317-X.