Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson

Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Anderson (1943)

Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson KCB MC (born December 25, 1891 in Madras , British India , † April 29, 1959 in Gibraltar ) was a British general and most recently Governor of Gibraltar.

Life

Anderson graduated after attending Charterhouse School military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and then entered the regiment of the Seaforth Highlanders one. During the First World War combat operations followed from 1914 to 1916 on the Western Front and then from 1917 to 1918 under the command of General Edmund Allenby in Palestine .

After the end of the First World War he was regimental adjutant in the Territorial Army and attended the Command and Staff College in Quetta, India, and the Staff College Camberley . In 1930 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and temporarily commanded the British troops in the League of Nations mandate for Palestine . In the meantime he was also used as commander of a battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders in the Indian Northwest Frontier Province and was Mentioned in Despatches for this purpose . As a colonel , he took over a brigade in Scotland in 1934.

In the Second World War , he commanded a brigade during the western campaign in 1940, and during the Battle of Dunkirk he took over the 3rd Division from Bernard Montgomery . He then led the 1st Division in Coastal Defense in Great Britain, was promoted to Lieutenant General and held various corps commands before becoming Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Command in April 1942 . In August 1942 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 1st Army , which, after Operation Torch in November 1942, took over the command of the Allied forces in North West Africa. In this function he took part in the Tunisian campaign in 1942/43. He then returned to Great Britain, where he led the 2nd Army and later again the Eastern Command . In December 1944 he was appointed commander in chief of the East Africa Command , which he remained until 1946.

His last active post was that of the Governor of Gibraltar , which he held from February 8, 1947 to April 23, 1952. In June 1952, he retired after reaching the age limit.

source

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary , Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 10
• Entry in generals.de
• KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment Peerage

predecessor	Office	successor
Ralph Eastwood	Governor of Gibraltar 1947–1952	Gordon MacMillan