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{{Short description|British Army officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox military person
|name=Sir Eustace Francis Tickell
|birth_date=10 December 1893
|death_date=28 December 1972 (aged 79)
|birth_place=
|death_place= [[Surrey]], England{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}}
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|allegiance= {{flag|United Kingdom}}
|serviceyears=1913−1948
|servicenumber= 8173
|rank= [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]]
|branch= [[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
|current position=
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|unit=[[Royal Engineers]]
|battles=[[World War I|First World War]]<br />[[World War II|Second World War]]
|awards=[[Order of the British Empire|Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]<br />[[Order of the Bath|Companion of the Order of the Bath]]<br />[[Military Cross]]
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[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] '''Sir Eustace Francis Tickell''' [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]] [[Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Military Cross|MC]] (10 December 1893 – 28 December 1972) was a senior [[British Army]] officer during the [[World War II|Second World War]].

==Military career==
Born on 10 December 1893 in Srinagar Kashmir, Eustace Tickell was educated at [[Bedford School]] and at the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]].{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=309}} He received his first commission in the [[Royal Engineers]] in 1913 and served in [[France]], [[Greece]] and [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]] during the [[World War I|First World War]].{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}}

Tickell served as an instructor at the [[Royal School of Military Engineering]] in 1919 and, after marrying two years later, he returned to the RMA Woolwich, this time as an instructor, from 1924−1927.{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}} He then served in Northern [[China]] in 1928, before returning to the United Kingdom to become [[officer commanding]] (OC) Royal Engineers officers at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] from 1932−1934.{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}} He was then made Commander Royal Engineers (CRE) with [[Northern Command (United Kingdom)|Northern Command]] from 1936−1938, followed by being made CRE of the [[5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|5th Infantry Division]] until 1939, and then Chief Engineer, [[British Troops in Egypt]], a position he was holding at the beginning of the [[World War II|Second World War]] in September 1939.{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}}

During the war Tickell served in the [[Middle East]], and in 1940 was appointed Director of Works with [[Middle East Command]]. In 1944, still in the Middle East, he was briefly made Engineer-in-Chief with Middle East Command, before being made Director of Works with the [[21st Army Group]], from 1944−1945.{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}} Engineer-in-Chief with the British Liberation Army in 1945, he returned that year to the [[War Office]] to be made Engineer-in-Chief there.{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}}<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U160319/TICKELL_Maj.-Gen._Sir_Eustace_Francis?index=1&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0 Who's Who]</ref>

His father, Charles Tickell, was a Civil Engineer who worked for the Maharajah of Kashmir (1892–1894). The father of [[Major general|Major General]] Marston Tickell,<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6533001/Major-General-Marston-Tickell.html Major-General Marston Tickell - Telegraph]</ref> Major General Sir Eustace Tickell was invested as a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1942,<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35697/page/3945/data.pdf {{Bare URL PDF |date=December 2021}}</ref> and as a Knight Companion of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in 1945.<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37161/supplement/3489/data.pdf {{Bare URL PDF |date=December 2021}}</ref> After being made President of the Institution of Royal Engineers in 1948, a post he retained until 1951, he retired from the [[British Army]] in 1949 but the next year he was made Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineer Corps until 1958, as well as, in 1953, becoming Honorary Colonel of the Army Emergency Reserve Royal Engineers Resource Unit, until 1959.{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}} Tickell died in [[Surrey]] on 28 December 1972, shortly after turning 79.{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=310}}

==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/Tickell/Eustace_Francis/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]

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