Educated at
Wellington College and the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Pugh was commissioned into the
Royal Artillery on 29 January 1927. He served with the Intelligence Branch of the
Indian Police Service in the 1930s. During the
Second World War, he served with the
Special Operations Executive in
India and, on 9 March 1943, he led
Operation Creek which was a covert attack by members of the
Calcutta Light Horse and the
Calcutta Scottish against a
Nazi German merchant ship, the
Ehrenfels, which had been transmitting information to
U-boats from
Mormugao Harbour in neutral
Portugal's territory of
Goa. After the war he became commander of the
26th Gurkha Infantry Brigade in November 1949 during the
Malayan Emergency, brigadier on the general staff at the Military Training Directorate in September 1952 and Deputy Director of Military Operations at the
War Office in November 1953. He went on to be Chief of Staff for
Far East Land Forces in January 1956 and General Officer Commanding the
53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division in January 1958 before retiring in February 1961. He was also colonel of the
2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) from 1956 to 1969. == In popular culture ==