General Sir Clive Gerard Liddell, KCB, CMG, CBE, DSO (1 May 1883 – 9 September 1956) was a senior British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces from 1937 to 1939. He was Governor of Gibraltar from 1939 to 1941 during the early stages of the Second World War.^[1]

Liddell attended Uppingham School before enrolling at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.^[2] He was commissioned into the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment on 22 October 1902.^[4][3]

He was an adjutant from 1908 to 1911 and then became a staff captain at 6th District of Northern Command in April 1912.^[5][6]

He served in the First World War as assistant adjutant and quartermaster general at the War Office.^[6][1]

After the war Liddell became an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley.^[6][3] He then went to the Imperial Defence College in 1927.^[6] He became a General Staff Officer at the War Office in 1928 and then Commander 8th Infantry Brigade in 1931.^[6]

He became general officer commanding (GOC) 47th (2nd London) Division in January 1935 and then GOC 4th Division in November 1935 before becoming Adjutant-General to the Forces in 1937.^[6] He was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar in 1939, a post he held until 1941.^[6] During his tenure of this post he organised the evacuation of all families of British service personnel and civilians from Gibraltar.^[7] He served as Inspector General for Training from 1941 to 1942; he retired in 1943.^[6]

Liddell was also Colonel of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment from 1943 to 1948^[6] and Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1943 to 1949.^[8][3]

• Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 1844150496.

• British Army Officers 1939−1945
• Generals of World War II