John Acland

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Sir John Hugh Bevil Acland , KCB , CBE , DL (born November 26, 1928 in London - † November 17, 2006 ) was a British major general in the British Army .

Life

Acland was the first son of Brigadier General Peter Acland and his wife Bridget Susan Barnett. His younger brother Antony Acland was a diplomat and, among other things, ambassador to Luxembourg , Spain and the USA and from 1982 to 1986 he was Permanent Under-Secretary of State and thus the highest official of the State Department. He began by attending the prestigious Eton College in 1946 a military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and came after the completion of training in 1948 as a lieutenant (Second Lieutenant)into the guards regiment Scots Guards . In the following years he participated in combat operations against the guerrilla movement Malayan Races Liberation Army (MNLA) in the Federation of Malaya in part and in 1950 for Lieutenant (Lieutenant) and 1954 for the captain (Captain) transported. After a deployment during the Cyprus conflict in 1957 he was between 1957 and 1959 stable master of Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester .

After attending Staff College Camberley from 1959 to 1961, he was promoted to major in 1961 . He then took part in missions during the Mau Mau War in Colony Kenya and in 1964 in the fight against the coup led by John Okello in the Zanzibar archipelago . He was then between 1964 and 1966 Brigademajor of the 4th Armored Guard Brigade belonging to the Rhine Army (4th Guards Armored Brigade) . Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant Colonel) in 1967, he served from 1968 to 1971 as commander ( Commanding Officer ) of the 2nd battalion of the Scots Guards and took in with his unit in operations Northern Ireland conflict in 1969 in part. He was then used between 1972 and 1974 as an officer in the weapons supply department of the Chief of the General Staff in the Ministry of Defense .

1975 Acland was promoted to Brigadier General (Brigadier) and initially remained in the General Staff. He then took over from 1976 to 1978 the post of Deputy Commander of the British Armed Forces in Cyprus BFC (British Forces Cyprus) and was thus representative of Air Vice Marshal Roy Austen-Smith . At the same time he was in personal union between 1976 and 1978 commander of the British land forces stationed there. Upon his return, he served from 1978 to 1981 as commander ( General Officer Commanding ) of the home command belonging Military District Southwest (Southwest District) . In 1978 he became Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In addition, during the transition process from the Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia to the Republic of Zimbabwe between 1979 and 1980, he acted as commander of the Commonwealth of Nations observation troops and at the same time as military advisor to Christopher Soames , who was the last governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1979 to 1980. In 1980 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". In 1981, he retired as a major general (Major-General) from active military service.

Acland was to succeed Lewis Clifford, 13th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh 1983 until his replacement by General John Waters 1992 Honorary Colonel (Honorary Colonel) of the Royal Devon Yeomanry and as successor to Major James Morrison from 1989 until his also by General John Waters In 1992 he was replaced as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry . Furthermore, he was 1985 honorary colonel of the officer training corps OTC of the University of Exeter and in 1984 Deputy Lieutenant (DL) and 1986 High Sheriff of the County of Devon . In 1995 he finally became Vice- Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon.

He was married to Myrtle Christian Euing Crawford, daughter of Brigadier General Alistair Wardrop Euing Crawford, from November 12, 1953 until his death on November 17, 2006 . From this marriage the son Peter John Acland and the daughter Victoria Susan Acland were born.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 38535, HMSO, London, February 11, 1949, p. 747 ( PDF , accessed October 6, 2016, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47549, HMSO, London, June 3, 1978, p. 6233 ( PDF , accessed October 6, 2016, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 48212, HMSO, London, June 14, 1980, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed October 6, 2016, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 49826, HMSO, London, August 3, 1984, p. 10603 ( PDF , accessed October 6, 2016, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 50731, HMSO, London, November 28, 1986, p. 15365 ( PDF , accessed October 6, 2016, English).
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 51134, HMSO, London, November 27, 1987, p. 14641 ( PDF , accessed October 6, 2016, English).
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 54015, HMSO, London, April 24, 1995, p. 5971 ( PDF , accessed October 6, 2016, English).
personal data
SURNAME Acland, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acland, Sir John Hugh Bevil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Major General
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 2006