Educated at
Brighton College, Sugden was
commissioned as a
second lieutenant into the
Royal Engineers on 29 August 1923. He attended the
Staff College, Quetta from 1932 to 1933. Sugden served in the
Second World War in
North Africa and then was Director of Plans at the
War Office from 1943. After the war he became Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1945. He became a
brigadier on the General Staff at Headquarters British Troops in Egypt in 1947, the same year he served as an instructor at the
Imperial Defence College, and then
chief of staff there in 1948. Sugden returned to the War Office as Director of Personnel Administration in 1949 and then became chief of staff for
British Army of the Rhine in 1951. He was appointed
Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1954 and
Commander-in-Chief of
Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1956. He served as
Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1958 to 1961, when he became
Master-General of the Ordnance. ==References==