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General Sir John

D'Arcy Anderson, GBE, KCB, DSO (23 September

1908 – 16 April 1988) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the

1960s. John D'Arcy Anderson was born on 23 September 1908 in Downpatrick, Ireland, the only son of Reginald D'Arcy

Anderson. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. Royal

Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1929. He served in

the Second World War in

France, the Middle East and Italy.

After the war Anderson was appointed General Officer Commanding 11th Armoured Division in Germany in 1955 and then Chief of Staff at Headquarters Northern Army Group and British Army of the Rhine in

1956. He became Director of the Royal Armoured Corps in

1958 and Director General of Military Training at the War Office in 1959.

Anderson was appointed Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff in 1961 and Military

Secretary in 1963. Finally he became Commandant

of the Imperial Defence College in 1966; he retired in 1968. He

was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the

Bath in the 1961 New Year Honours.

Anderson was also the first Colonel Commandant of Ulster Defence Regiment from

1969 to 1979. In that capacity he escorted the Queen during her Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland in 1977. A purpose built operations

centre for the UDR was built at Ballykinler army base and named in honour of the general

who was known as "The father of the UDR".

From 1962 to 1967 Anderson was Colonel of the 5th Royal

Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. 



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