Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive (16 July 1874 – 7 October 1959) was a British Army officer who subsequently became Military Secretary.
Background and education
Clive was the son of General Edward Clive and Isabel Webb and he was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Military career
Clive was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in October 1893, and promoted to lieutenant on 26 October 1897. He 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 (19 January – 24 March 1900). He 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. For his service in the war he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). and became a General Staff Officer at the War Office in 1905.
He 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. He was also invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Clive, who in January 1917 became a brevet colonel, also received several decorations from France, Belgium and Russia.
He died on 7 October 1959 in a disastrous fire at the family home, Perrystone Court, near Ross-on-Wye.
Family
On 26 March 1901 Clive married Madeline Buxton and the couple had three sons (including Archer Clive, who fought with distinction in World War II) and two daughters.