Russell Luckock, Born 1877
Army Officer in the Boer and First World Wars
Major-General Russell Mortimer Luckock CB CMG DSO (27 November 1877 – 1950) was a British Army officer. The son of Rt. Rev. Herbert Mortimer Luckock, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) in 1900, and shortly thereafter left for South Africa to serve in the Second Boer War. He later served in the First World War, during which he was awarded the DSO. He went on to become Commandant of the Small Arms School in India in February 1922, and Brigadier on the General Staff at Southern Command in October 1928. After that he became General Officer Commander 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division in September 1934. He also served as colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (1945–47). In addition to his 47 years of service in the Army, Russell Luckock had a wide range of other interests. These included hunting, big game shooting, croquet, billiards, stamp collecting, motor racing, photography, and the collection of Napoleon memorabilia.
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Source: This life story is an extract archived in 2021, with acknowledgement and thanks, from the book A Short History of the Descendants of Thomas Luckock of Coalbrookdale. The book was written by Russell Luckock’s brother Edward, and was privately published in 1949. It was contributed to Lives Retold by Jane Corbett, great granddaughter of Edward Russell.
Connected life stories:
His father: Luckock, Herbert. Born 1833. (35 pages). Dean of Lichfield Cathedral.
His brothers:
Luckock, Edward. Born 1871. (101 pages). Land agent.
Luckock, Arthur. Born 1880. (6 pages). Vicar.