George Stewart Tuxford , CB CMG DSO ( February 7, 1870 , - 1942 , ) - Canadian military commander, brigadier general . During World War I, he commanded the , and then of the 1st Canadian Division .
| George Stuart Taxford | |
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| Nickname | "Tux" |
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| Affiliation |  Canada |
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| Years of service | 1905–25 |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
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| Battles / wars | World War I
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| Retired | farmer, entrepreneur |
Biography
Born February 7, 1870 in the small village of , county Carnarvonshire , North Wales . Tuxford's parents came from the English county of Lincolnshire . In the 1880s, he immigrated to Canada, where he settled in the , becoming one of the first settlers in the area.
In 1905 he entered the military service. In the rank of major, he became the commander of a separate squadron “D”, a unit of the 16th Horse Rifle Regiment - the first unit of the Canadian police created in Saskatchewan . Then he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed commander of the 27th Light Cavalry Regiment based on Squadron D with headquarters in Mus Joe .
With the outbreak of World War I, Colonel Tuxford joined the . From September 1915 to January 1916 he commanded the . He was the regiment commander both during his stay in the military training camp of Valcartier , Quebec , and after being sent to the Western Front - he commanded him in the Second Battle of Ypres , as well as in the . In March 1916 he received the rank of brigadier general and was appointed commander , which he led during the battles , at the Somme , the , the battle of Wimi , the , the Amiens operation , the and the battle of Cambrai . After the war ended, its formation brigade served for some time as part of the occupying forces of the Entente in Germany, after which it was sent home.
After the resignation he was engaged in agriculture, was an oil trader. He died in 1942 in the Saskatchewan village of , named after him.
Literature
- Saskatchewan Provincial Archives. Memoirs of Brigadier General George S. Tuxford CB CMG DSO ED. 4 Volumes.
- Andrew B. Godefroy , "Portrait of a Battalion Commander: Lieutenant Colonel George Stuart Tuxford at the Second Battle of Ypres, April 1915", in Colonel Bernd Horn ed. Intrepid Warriors: Perspectives on Canadian Military Leaders. (Kingston and Toronto: CDA Press and Dundurn Group, 2007), pp. 59-74.