title: Percy Commings
text: # Percy Commings
  
  Major-General Percy Ryan Conway Commings CB, CMG, DSO (1880–1958) was a British Army officer.
  
  ## Military career
  
  Commings was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) on 7 May 1898. He saw action during the First World War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. He went on to become commander of the Rangoon Brigade in June 1931 and General Officer Commanding 56th (London) Infantry Division in June 1934 before retiring in June 1938.
  
  He was colonel of the South Staffordshire Regiment from 1935 to 1946.
  
  ## Family
  
  He married Emily Maude Frederica Wilson; they had a son and two daughters.
  
  