and awarded the CMG in January 1918. Stockwell remained in command of the 164th Infantry Brigade and successfully held Givenchy taking 700 prisoners in April 1918, and was again mentioned in despatches. He commanded a surprise attack on Givenchy in September 1918 and captured the enemy position and pursued the retreating enemy from La Bassée to Tournai and in the forcing of the Haute Dendre Canal. On 9 November 1918 he organised a mobile column known as ‘Stockwell's Force’ which reached a point a mile from Enghien on the day of the Armistice. He was made CB and again mentioned in despatches. Stockwell was later Commandant of the Senior Officers' School, Belgaum, and Commander of the 11th Indian Infantry Brigade, Ahmednagar, between 1930 and 1931. Family life In 1908, Clifton Stockwell married Hilda Rose Westmorland, who predeceased him. By his first wife, who was a sister of Percy Thuillier Westmorland, he had one son and two daughters. In 1944, Stockwell married secondly, Madeline, the widow of Lt-Colonel W.C. Critchley-Salmonson. Stockwell died on 4 December 1953. References 1879 births 1953 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College British Army generals of World War I Commandants of the Senior Officers' School, Belgaum Participants of the Christmas truce of 1914