Cyril Wagstaff


Cyril Mosley Wagstaff was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Military career

Educated at the United Services College, Wagstaff was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1897. He served on the North West Frontier of India and in the First World War with the Australian Army and is credited with creating the term ANZAC. He was appointed a General Staff Officer at the War Office in 1925, Commander of the Nowshera Brigade on the North West Frontier of India in 1928 and Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich in 1930 before his death in 1934.

Family

In 1906 he married Rosabel Thelwall. Following the death of his first wife, he married Marjorie Frances Fry in 1927.