Hugh Archdale

Hugh James Archdale was a British Army officer.

Military career

Educated at Cheltenham College, Archdale was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1875. After serving in Sudan, Burma and Crete, Archdale saw action in the Second Boer War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He became commandant of the Imperial Yeomanry Discharge Depot at Aldershot in 1903 and in January 1907 was promoted to substantive colonel and temporary brigadier general while employed as commander of a grouped regimental district.
He was the first general officer commanding of the North Midland Division in April 1908 before retiring from the army in January 1911.