Thomas Riddell-Webster

General Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster (12 February 1886 – 27 May 1974) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces during the Second World War. Military career Educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Riddell-Webster was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 16 August 1905. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 September 1909 and to captain on 24 October 1913. He served in World War I initially as a staff captain (appointed 3 November 1914) then as deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster general in France (17 July 1915). He was brevetted to major on 1 January 1916. On 9 July 1917, he was appointed assistant adjutant and quartermaster general in France and Italy, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war, Riddell-Webster relinquished his temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel on 1 April 1919. He was promoted to the substantive rank of major and the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel on 3 June 1919. He became a Brigade Major with Irish Command on 21 July 1921. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at the Staff College in 1922, and was brevetted to lieutenant-colonel on 12 March 1923. After attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1924 to 1925, he was appointed as a General Staff Officer at Scottish Command in 1926. In 1930 he was made Commanding Officer of 2nd Bn Cameronians, and promoted to substantive lieutenant-colonel on 16 December of that year. He was promoted to colonel on 27 June 1933, became Assistant Quartermaster General at the War Office that year and became Commander Poona (Independent) Brigade Area in 1935.