Lionel Howard Cox


Lionel Howard Cox CB CBE MC was a British Army officer.

Military career

Cox saw action with the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Machine Gun Corps, earning recognition with the award of the Military Cross, during the First World War. He served as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment between 1935 and 1938. He went on to be commander of the Malta Brigade in 1938, District Officer Commanding North Wales District in 1941 and General Officer Commanding 80th Infantry Division in the UK in January 1943. After that he became General Officer Commanding 38th Infantry Division also in the UK in September 1944 and District Officer Commanding Singapore District in 1945 before retiring in 1948.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1945 Birthday Honours.