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| birth_date =3 February 1885<ref name="birth">''Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864–1958''</ref>
| death_date =11 March 1946 (aged 61)
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| birth_place = Hammersmith, London, England
| death_place = [[Rathdown, County Wicklow]], Ireland
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| serviceyears =1904–1943
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General '''Sir Cyril Dupré Noyes''' [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]] [[Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] [[Military Cross|MC]] (3 February 1885 – 11 March 1946) was a British officer in the [[Indian Army]].<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: General Sir Cyril Noyes |work=[[The Times]] |date= 12 March 1946|page=6 }}</ref>

==Personal==
Noyes was born in 1885, the son of the Reverend Henry Edward Noyes, D.D. He was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]]. He married in 1918 Violet Maud Edith, eldest daughter of Colonel H. C. Lucas.<ref>''Kelly's Handbook to the titled, landed and official classes'' 1944</ref>

==Military career==
Noyes was commissioned into the [[Royal Garrison Artillery]] 21 December 1904 but transferred to the Indian Army and posted to [[2nd Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry]] 23 September 1908.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27762|page=940|date=7 February 1905}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28220|page=835|date=2 February 1909}}</ref>

He served on anti-smuggling operations in the Persian Gulf 1913–14. During World War 1 he served in Egypt during 1914–15 then Mesopotamia in 1916, and was awarded the [[Military Cross]].<ref> January 1941 Indian Army List war services supplement</ref>

Back in India he served on operations on the North West Frontier versus Afghanistan in 1919. He attended the [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Staff College, Quetta]] from 1921 to 1922 and later returned there as an instructor from 1927 to 1930, later commanding the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment.<ref>Smart, p. 237</ref> After attendance at the [[Royal College of Defence Studies|Imperial Defence College]], he saw service again in the Mohmand campaign of 1935 as commander of the [[2nd Indian Infantry Brigade]] and again during operations in Waziristan in 1936–37 for which he was awarded the [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]].<ref> January 1941 Indian Army List war services supplement</ref>

He was promoted Commanding Officer of the 2nd battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment from 16 March 1929 and held command until 15 March 1933.<ref>October 1931 & April 1934 Indian Army List's</ref> He was appointed commander of the [[2nd Indian Infantry Brigade]] from 6 September 1935 to 25 November 1938.<ref>January 1936 & January 1939 Indian Army List's</ref><ref name=dk>[http://www.generals.dk/general/Noyes/Sir_Cyril_Dupr%C3%A9/Great_Britain.html Generals.dk]</ref>

He served in [[World War II]] as Deputy Quartermaster-General at [[India Command|Army Headquarters India]] from 1939, as Director of Movements & Quartering at Army Headquarters, India from 1940 and as a District Commander in India from 1941.<ref name=dk/> He went on to be Quartermaster-General at Army Headquarters, India in 1942 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief [[Northern Command (India)|North Western Army]] in 1942.<ref name=dk/> He retired in 1943 and died in 1946.<ref name=dk/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book| first=Nick| last=Smart| title=Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War| isbn=1844150496| year=2005| location=Barnesley| publisher=Pen & Sword}}

==External links==
*[https://generals.dk/general/Noyes/Cyril_Dupr%C3%A9/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]

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