Sidney Clive was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in October 1893, and promoted to lieutenant on 26 October 1897.
15 Facts About Sidney Clive
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Sidney Clive took part in the military expedition to the Sudan in 1898, and was promoted to captain on 28 January 1900, during a temporary appointment as Adjutant of the 3rd battalion.
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Sidney Clive fought in the Second Boer War between 1900 and 1902; he was part of a detachment sent to South Africa on the SS "Umbria "in late March 1900 to reinforce the 3rd battalion.
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Sidney Clive attended Staff College, Camberley in 1903 and became a General Staff Officer at the War Office in 1905.
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Sidney Clive served in the First World War as Head of the British Mission at the French Army headquarters from 1915 to the end of the War, for which he was promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel whilst employed in that role.
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Sidney Clive was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
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Sidney Clive was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
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Sidney Clive was appointed British Military Representative to the Armaments Commission of the League of Nations in Geneva in 1921 and became Military attache in Paris in 1924, rising to Major-General in the same year.
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Sidney Clive was appointed Director of Personal Services at the War Office in 1928 and Military Secretary in 1930.
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Sidney Clive was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1933.
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Sidney Clive retired from the army in 1934, as a Lieutenant General, and served as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps between 1934 and 1946 and as High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1939.
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Sidney Clive was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1937.
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Sidney Clive was a Justice of the Peace and the Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire.
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Sidney Clive died on 7 October 1959 in a disastrous fire at the family home, Perrystone Court, near Ross-on-Wye.
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On 26 March 1901 Sidney Clive married Madeline Buxton and the couple had three sons and two daughters.