Cuthbert Lucas later attended Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
16 Facts About Cuthbert Lucas
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Cuthbert Lucas was commissioned as a second lieutenant into 2nd Battalion, the Royal Berkshire Regiment, on 7 May 1898.
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Cuthbert Lucas served with the battalion in South Africa during the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902, taking part in operations in the Orange Free State from February to July 1900, in Transvaal from July to November 1900, and later in Cape Colony south of Orange River.
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Cuthbert Lucas was promoted to lieutenant on 1 August 1900, while in South Africa.
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Cuthbert Lucas later served in the Egyptian Army and Sudan Civil Service.
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Cuthbert Lucas was seconded from his regiment in order to attend the Staff College, Camberley from January 1913 onwards and was still there upon the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914.
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Cuthbert Lucas served in the war, initially with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front.
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Cuthbert Lucas was promoted to temporary brigadier general in October and to brevet lieutenant colonel and led the brigade during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and into 1917 before becoming commandant of the Machine Gun Corps Training Centre in 1918.
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Cuthbert Lucas was promoted to temporary major general and appointed general officer commanding of the 4th Division in October 1918, during the closing stages of the war.
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On 30 June 1919, Cuthbert Lucas was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Hertfordshire.
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Cuthbert Lucas was made Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade in Ireland, and of Fermoy Barracks, on 30 October 1919, the same date he was promoted to substantive colonel, and on 26 June 1920, during the Irish War of Independence, he was captured by the IRA while he was fishing on the Munster Blackwater near Fermoy along with Colonels Tyrell and Danford.
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General Cuthbert Lucas was held in West Limerick and East Clare.
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The IRA moved him to East Limerick from where Cuthbert Lucas escaped four weeks later.
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Cuthbert Lucas became Assistant Adjutant General at Aldershot Command in 1924 and served with the staff at General Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine from 1927 before he retired to Stevenage in 1932.
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Cuthbert Lucas died on 7 April 1956 and is buried in Graveley, Hertfordshire.
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Cuthbert Lucas married Joan Holdsworth in October 1917, who died on 6 September 1979 and is buried in Graveley, Hertfordshire.