Lieutenant General Hugh Royds Stokes Massy CB DSO MC (5 January 1884 – 21 May 1965) was a British Army officer who served during the First and Second World Wars.
Educated at Bradfield College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,[2] Massy was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1902.[3] He served with the West African Frontier Force from 1907 and then became Adjutant for 4th East Lancashire Brigade in 1913.[3]
He served in the First World War, initially as a staff officer in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and then as a Brigade Major in France.[3]
After the war he attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1919 and became a brigade major with Irish Command in 1920 and then went to India, initially as a staff officer, and then as an instructor at the Staff College, Quetta.[3] After attending the Imperial Defence College in 1930, he was an instructor at the Senior Officers' School, Belgaum from 1932 and then became a brigadier with Southern Command in 1934.[3] He was appointed Director of Military Training at the War Office in 1938.[3]
He served in the Second World War, initially as Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff and then as Commander-in-Chief of the North West Expeditionary Force to Central Norway in 1940; he went on to command XI Corps in East Anglia from July 1940 to November 1941[4] and retired in 1943.[3]
He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1945 to 1951.[3]
He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1946.[2]
In 1912 he married Maud Ina Nest Roch. They had one son and one daughter.[2]
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