Robert David Percival-Maxwell

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Colonel Robert David Percival-Maxwell DSO PC(Ire) was a British soldier and member of the Senate of Northern Ireland and Down County Council.

Percival-Maxwell played a significant part in the raising of the 36th (Ulster) Division on the outbreak of the First World War. He was commissioned Major in the 13th (County Down) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, which he had raised, in September 1914[1] and was appointed second-in-command in December 1914.[2] He was promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded a battalion from November 1916[3] and commanded a battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers from May 1918.[4] He was seriously wounded during the war. He resigned his commission in January 1919.[5]

He was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland in the honours for the opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in July 1921,[6] entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable".

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  1. ^ London Gazette: no. 28953, page 8642, 27 October 1914.
  2. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29048, page 784, 22 January 1915.
  3. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29918, page 938, 23 January 1917.
  4. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30739, page 6908, 7 June 1918.
  5. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31556, page 11664, 16 September 1919.
  6. ^ London Gazette: no. 32387, page 5553, 12 July 1921.
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