Major-General William Frederick Cleeve CB

Order of the Bath

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 JP

Justice of the Peace

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 (1853 - 31 January 1922) was a British Army

British Army

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 officer who became Commandant

Commandant

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 of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Military career

Cleeve was commissioned into the Royal Artillery

Royal Artillery

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 in 1873. He served in Second Anglo-Afghan War

Second Anglo-Afghan War

The Second Anglo-Afghan War was fought between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the nation was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan. This was the second time British India invaded Afghanistan. The war ended in a manner...

 and later in the Second Boer War

Second Boer War

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. He was appointed Chief Instructor in Gunnery in 1901 and Commandant

Commandant

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 of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich holding that post throughout World War I

World War I

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